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  "legislation": "nia/2016/14",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Privilege for certain publications",
  "text": "For the purposes of the law of defamation, publication by the Commissioner of any matter which the Commissioner is required or authorised to publish under this Act shall be absolutely privileged unless the publication is proved to be made with malice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S. 8 in operation at 1.9.2025 by S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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