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DEFAMATION ORDINANCE - SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
[section 14]
NEWSPAPER STATEMENTS HAVING QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE
PART I
STATEMENTS PRIVILEGED WITHOUT EXPLANATION OR CONTRADICTION
1. A fair and accurate report of any proceedings in public of the legislature of any part of the Commonwealth outside Hong Kong.
2. A fair and accurate report of any proceedings in public of an international organization of which the Government of Hong Kong or Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is a member, or of any international conference to which the Government of Hong Kong or Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom sends a representative.
3. A fair and accurate report of any proceedings in public of an international court.
4. A fair and accurate report of any proceedings before a court exercising jurisdiction throughout any part of the Commonwealth outside Hong Kong or of any proceedings before a court-martial held outside Hong Kong under the Naval Discipline Act, the Army Act or the Air Force Act.
5. A fair and accurate report of any proceedings in public of a body or person appointed to hold a public inquiry by the Government or legislature of any part of the Commonwealth outside Hong Kong.
6. A fair and accurate copy of or extract from any register kept in pursuance of any Ordinance which is open to inspection by the public, or of any other document which is required by the law of Hong Kong to be open to inspection by the public.
7. A notice or advertisement published by or on the authority of any court within Hong Kong or any judge or officer of such a court.
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PART II
STATEMENTS PRIVILEGED SUBJECT TO EXPLANATION OR CONTRADICTION
8. A fair and accurate report of the findings or decision of any of the following associations, or of any committee or governing body thereof, that is to say-(a) an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or encouraging the exercise of or interest in any art, science, religion or learning, and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or adjudicate upon matters of interest or concern to the association, or the actions or conduct of any persons subject to such control or adjudication;
(b) an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or safeguarding the interests of any trade, business, industry or profession, or of the persons carrying on or engaged in any trade, business, industry or profession, and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or adjudicate upon matters connected with the trade, business, industry or profession, or the actions or conduct of those persons;
(c) an association formed in Hong Kong for the purpose of promoting or safeguarding the interests of any game, sport or pastime to the playing or exercise of which members of the public are invited or admitted, and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over or adjudicate upon persons connected with or taking part in the game, sport or pastime,
being a finding or decision relating to a person who is a member of or is subject by virtue of any contract to the control of the association.
9. A fair and accurate report of the proceedings at any public meeting held in Hong Kong, that is to say, a meeting bona fide and lawfully held for a lawful purpose and for the furtherance or discussion of any matter of public concern, whether the admission to the meeting is general or restricted.
10. A fair and accurate report of the proceedings at any meeting or sitting in any part of Hong Kong of-(a) any body, board or authority formed or constituted under the provisions of any Ordinance or of any committee appointed by such body, board or authority;
(b) (Repealed 47 of 1997 s. 10)
(c) any commission, tribunal, committee or person appointed for the purposes of any inquiry by Letters Patent, Act of Parliament, Ordinance, by Her Majesty, by the Governor or by the head of any department of Government;
(d) any other tribunal, board, committee or body constituted by or under, and exercising functions under, an Ordinance,
not being a meeting or sitting admission to which is denied to representatives of newspapers and other members of the public.
11. A fair and accurate report of the proceedings at a general meeting of any company or association constituted, registered or certified by or under any Ordinance or Act of Parliament or incorporated by Royal Charter, not being a private company within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance, Chapter 32.
12. A copy or fair and accurate report or summary of any notice or other matter issued for the information of the public by or on behalf of any Government department, or by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police.
13. A copy or fair and accurate report or summary of any notice or other matter issued for the information of the public by or on behalf of the Consumer Council. (Added 23 of 1986 s. 4)
14. A copy or fair and accurate report or summary of any report made or published under section 16 or 16A of The Ombudsman Ordinance (Cap 397). (Added 44 of 1994 s. 19. Amended 74 of 1996 s. 12)
15. A copy of a fair and accurate report or summary of any report prepared and supplied for the purposes of section 30 of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Cap 485) or prepared and published under section 32 of that Ordinance. (Added 4 of 1998 s. 9)(Added 33 of 1961 s. 12. Amended 23 of 1986 s. 4)