Queensland Consolidated Acts

BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 111A

111A Protection of body corporate and committee from liability for defamation

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the committee for the body corporate for a community titles scheme publishes required material for a general meeting of the body corporate under the regulation module applying to the scheme; and

(b) the required material contains defamatory matter.

(2) Each of the following is not liable for defamation by the publication of the defamatory matter as mentioned in subsection (1) —

(a) the body corporate;

(b) the committee, or a member of the committee, other than a member of the committee who submitted the motion or explanatory note containing the defamatory matter.

(3) In this section—

"committee" or
"member of the committee" , for a community titles scheme for which a body corporate manager is engaged to carry out the functions of a committee for the body corporate and each of its executive members, means the body corporate manager.

"required material" , for a general meeting of the body corporate, means any of the following required under the regulation module applying to the community titles scheme to be published for the general meeting—

(a) a motion submitted other than by or for the committee for the general meeting;

(b) the substance of a motion mentioned in paragraph (a) ;

(c) an explanatory note for a motion mentioned in paragraph (a) prepared by the submitter of the motion.