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Section 79 — Freedom of Information Act 2000: Defamation.
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Defamation.
79 Where any information communicated by a public authority to a person (“ the applicant ”) under section 1 was supplied to the public authority by a third person, the publication to the applicant of any defamatory matter contained in the information shall be privileged unless the publication is shown to have been made with malice.
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