Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

The issue of financial loss is not key to this. If one allows that a body corporate can be defamed, one must also allow all the provisions of this Bill to apply to it, including apologies and so on. This section merely sets out that a body corporate can be defamed and that the body corporate does not have to prove financial loss to take advantage of the other provisions of the Bill. That is my understanding of the section.