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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-and-research-act-2017/section-67C",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/29",
  "legislation_title": "Higher Education and Research Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-and-research-act-2017",
  "path": "section/67C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67C",
  "heading": "Protection from defamation claims",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the law of defamation, publication by the OfS of any notice, decision or report given or made in the performance of its functions is privileged unless the publication is shown to have been made with malice.\nThis is subject to section 67B.\n(2) See section 67A(6) for the meaning of references to decisions.\n(3) This section does not apply to the publication of—\n(a) a decision or recommendation made by the OfS under the scheme provided by virtue of Schedule 6A, or\n(b) a report under paragraph 12(1)(b) of that Schedule.\n(See instead paragraph 13 of Schedule 6A.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 67A-67C and cross-headings inserted (28.6.2022) by Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022 (c. 21), ss. 33, 36(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 67C(3) inserted (1.9.2026 for specified purposes) by Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (c. 16), s. 13(3), Sch. para. 6; S.I. 2026/654, reg. 2(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/29/section/67C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:21.835873+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}