17B   Matters relating to the Privacy Commissioner

(1)  There is a defence of absolute privilege for a publication to or by the Privacy Commissioner, as Privacy Commissioner, or to any member of the staff of the Privacy Commissioner, as such a member.

(2)  Subsection (1) applies in relation to an acting Privacy Commissioner in the same way as it applies in relation to the Privacy Commissioner.

(3)  There is a defence of absolute privilege for the publication of a report under section 65 of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998.

(4)  There is a defence of absolute privilege for the publication, under the authority of the Minister administering the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, of a copy of a report previously made public under section 65 of that Act.