Section 54Part 9 — Part IX - Miscellaneous
Protection from liability re defamation, breach of confidence and intellectual property rights
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Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorising the disclosure of any record —
containing any defamatory matter; or
the disclosure of which would be in breach of confidence or of intellectual property rights.
Where access to a record referred to in subsection (1) is granted in the bona fide belief that the grant of such access is required by this Act, no action for defamation, breach of confidence or breach of intellectual property rights shall lie against —
the Government, a public authority, Minister or public officer involved in the grant of such access, by reason of the grant of access or of any re-publication of that record; or
the author of the record or any other person who supplied the record to the Government or the public authority, in respect of the publication involved in or resulting from the grant of access, by reason of having so supplied the record.
The grant of access to a record in accordance with this Act shall not be construed as authorisation or approval —
for the purpose of the law relating to defamation or breach of confidence, of the publication of the record or its contents by the person to whom access is granted;
for the purposes of any law relating to intellectual property rights, of the doing by that person of any act comprised within the intellectual property rights in any work contained in the record.