139 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 Australian Electoral Commission, a ballot under the Act in relation to the printing or issuing of a document or other material by the electoral official; or (b) if the document or other material mentioned in paragraph (a) is printed by another person — against that person, in relation to the printing.

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