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Criminal Code Act 1983
343Defence of truth of defamatory matter to be specially pleaded
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343 Defence of truth of defamatory matter to be specially pleaded
A person charged with the unlawful publication of defamatory
matter who sets up that the defamatory matter is true must plead
that matter specially and may plead it with any other plea except
the plea of guilty.