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Paragraph 9 I1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For the purposes of the law of defamation absolute privilege attaches to—

(a)

any communication between a housing ombudsman under an approved scheme and any person by or against whom a complaint is made to him,

(b)

any determination by such an ombudsman, and

(c)

the publication of such a determination or any report under paragraph 8.

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Commencement

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Sch. 2 para. 9 wholly in force at 1.4.1997 see s. 232(1)-(3) and S.I. 1997/618, art. 2 (subject to the limitation in (2) of that art.)