Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 20:

In page 19, subsection (4), between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:

"(d) as far as practicable, he or she made a reasonable attempt to obtain in advance and publish a response from the person to whom the publication related, and".

This amendment is similar to an earlier amendment. Obviously, it is part of the defence that an attempt was made in advance to obtain and publish a response from the person to whom the publication related. If one used that defence, it would logically follow that one should be able to prove one made that attempt. For that reason the amendment was tabled.