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SCHEDULEStatements having qualified privilege

PART 2Statements having qualified privilege subject to explanation or contradiction

Reports of proceedings of local government, committees, commissions, inquiries, tribunals etc.

11(1)A fair and accurate report of proceedings at any public meeting or sitting in the United Kingdom of—

(a)a local authority, local authority committee or, in the case of a local authority which is operating executive arrangements, the executive of that authority or a committee of that executive,

(b)a justice or justices of the peace acting otherwise than as a court exercising judicial authority,

(c)a commission, tribunal, committee or person appointed for the purposes of any inquiry by any statutory provision, by Her Majesty or by a Minister of the Crown, a member of the Scottish Government, the Welsh Ministers or the Counsel General to the Welsh Government or a Northern Ireland Department,

(d)a person appointed by a local authority to hold a local inquiry in pursuance of any statutory provision,

(e)any other tribunal, board, committee or body constituted by or under, and exercising functions under, any statutory provision.

(2)In the case of a local authority which is operating executive arrangements, a fair and accurate record of any decision made by any member of the executive where that record is required to be made and available for public inspection by virtue of section 22 of the Local Government Act 2000 (access to information etc.) or of any provision in regulations made under that section.

(3)In sub-paragraphs (1) (a) and (2)

(4)A fair and accurate report of any corresponding proceedings in any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man or in a member State.