Act Number: 15

Act Name: The Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act, 1977

Year: 1977

Enactment Date: 1977-04-18

Long Title: An Act to protect the publication of reports of proceedings of Parliament.

Ministry: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Department:

Section 3: Publication of reports of Parliamentary proceedings privileged
    (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no person shall be liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in any court in respect of the publication in a newspaper of a substantially true report of any proceedings of either House of Parliament, unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice.
     (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as protecting the publication of any matter, the publication of which is not for the public good.
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