Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2009

Absolute privilege for reports of Comptroller and Auditor General

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1.—(1) This section applies to any report which is authorised or required by any statutory provision to be made by the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.

(2) For the purposes of the law of defamation, absolute privilege attaches to the publication by any person of a report to which this section applies.