New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMISSION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1998 - SECT 20B

20B Restriction on publication of evidence at private hearings

(1) The Commission may direct that:

(a) any evidence given before the Commission at a private hearing of a special inquiry, or

(b) the contents of any document, or a description of any thing, produced to the Commission at a private hearing, or

(c) any information that might enable a person who has given or may be about to give evidence at a private hearing to be identified or located, or

(d) that fact that any person has given or may be about to give evidence at a private hearing,

must not be published except in such manner, and to such persons, as the Commission specifies.

(2) The Commission is not to give a direction unless satisfied that the direction is necessary or desirable in the public interest or for the safety, welfare or well-being of a child.

(3) A person must not make a publication in contravention of a direction given under this section.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.