114No action for defamation in certain cases

114 No action for defamation in certain cases

No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, for defamation lies: (a) against the Commonwealth or an electoral official conducting, on behalf of the AEC, a ballot under the Act or these Regulations, in relation to: (i) the printing or issuing of a document or other material that is required or permitted under regulation 63 or 91 to be contained in the sealed envelope mentioned in that regulation; or (ii) the printing or issuing of a post ballot report given by the AEC under section 68 or 107 of the Act; or (b) if the report, document or other material mentioned in paragraph (a) is printed by another person—against that person, in relation to the printing.