619Qualified privilege

619 Qualified privilege (1) If this Law provides that a person has qualified privilege for an act, matter or thing, the person, in relation to the act, matter or thing: (a) has qualified privilege in proceedings for defamation; and (b) is not, in the absence of malice on the person's part, liable to an action for defamation at the suit of a person. (2) In subsection (1): malice includes ill-will to the person concerned or any other improper motive. (3) Neither this section nor a provision of this Law that provides as referred to in subsection (1) limits or affects any right, privilege or immunity a person has, apart from this section or that type of provision, as a defendant in proceedings for defamation.