Parliamentary Papers Amendment Act 1985 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

No. 46 of 1985.

AN ACT to amend the Parliamentary Papers Act

1891.

Assented to 17 September 1985.1

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary and principal

Papers Amendment Act 1985. Act.

(2) In this Act the Parliamentary Papers Act

1891 is referred to as the principal Act.

No. 46.f Parliamentary Papers. I 1985.

Section 9A

inserted. 2. After section 3 of the principal Act, the

following section is inserted-

Protection

concerning	3A. (1) A person to whom this section
speeches in

Parliament.	applies does not incur any civil liability as for defamation by the publication, upon the written request of a member of either House of Parliament, of any defamatory matter in a copy in writing of a speech, or extract from a speech, made in Parliament by that member.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a copy in writing of a speech, or extract from a speech, made in Parliament by a member of either House of Parliament shall be taken to include any material not attributed to that member but included in the official report of his speech in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).

(3) This section applies to

(a) a person employed as a member of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff;

(b) an employee of Parliament;

(c)	the Government Printer; and
(d)	a person employed in the Govern- ment Printing Office. ".