SECTION 306 — Exceptions to Defamation

The following shall constitute no offence: 1. speeches within any legislative assembly, and any reports or other documents printed by order of any such assembly 2. faithful accounts without malice of the public sittings of Parliament any such assembly ; 3. proceedings in court and the speeches made and documents produced in court ; 4. faithful accounts without malice of all such proceedings and speeches, save of prosecution or action for defamation ; 5. publication of any judgment or judicial order, including those passed in a prosecution or action for defamation ; 6. an official report without malice by a person lawfully appointed to conduct an enquiry to the extent that it is germane to the enquiry ; 7. imputations without malice by a superior on his subordinate ; 8. information on any person given without malice to a third party having an interest, personal or official, in receiving it, or having power to remedy an alleged injustice ; 9. criticism of any work of art, entertainment or opinion shown or expressed in public, provided that such criticism be not an expression of personal animosity ; 10. any work of a historical nature and without malice.