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Section 3
The Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act, 1960Jammu and Kashmir

Section 3. Publication of reports of proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir privileged

(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no person shall be liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in any Court in respect of the publication in a newspaper of a substantially true report of any proceedings 3[of either House] of 1[the Legislative Assembly of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir], unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as protecting the publication of any matter the publication of which is not for the public good.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.