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Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990
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120 Qualified privilege
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a communication of information relating
to the credit-worthiness of any person made:
(a) to a reporting agency or trader; or
(b) to a trader by a reporting agency or another trader;
is protected by qualified privilege.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where information is communicated
in contravention of an order under this Part.