Western Australian Current Acts

DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 41

41 .         Proof of publication

        (1)         If a document appears to be printed or otherwise produced by means adapted for the production of numerous copies and there is in the document a statement to the effect that the document is printed, produced, published or distributed by or for a particular person, the statement is evidence in defamation proceedings that the document was so printed, produced, published or distributed.

        (2)         Evidence that a number or part of a document appearing to be a periodical is printed, produced, published or distributed by or for a particular person is evidence in defamation proceedings that a document appearing to be another number or part of the periodical was so printed, produced, published or distributed.

        (3)         In this section —

        periodical includes any newspaper, review, magazine or other printed document of which numbers or parts are published periodically.