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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 86

86.(1) Where a board or committee of a board supplies to any member of the
public attending a meeting of the board or a committee thereof or, pursuant to
paragraph (b) of Article 85, supplies for the benefit of a newspaper copies of
the agenda, statements, particulars or copies of other documents mentioned in
that paragraph, the publication of any defamatory matter contained in the
agenda, statement, particulars or documents so supplied shall be privileged
unless the publication is proved to be made with malice.

(2) In the Schedule to the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955 (by virtue
of which, among other things, newspaper reports of all proceedings at meetings
of local authorities and their committees are privileged unless admission to
the meeting is denied to representatives of newspapers and other members of
the public) references to a local authority shall be deemed to include a
reference to a board or a committee of a board ....

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