ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT 1965 - SECT 53 Restriction on publication of identity of parties

This legislation has been repealed.

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT 1965 - SECT 53

53 Restriction on publication of identity of parties

(1) Subject to this section, a person who publishes, or causes to be published, in a newspaper or periodical, or by means of broadcasting or television, in relation to an application under this Act or under a law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth for the adoption of a child or the proceedings on such an application, the name of an applicant, the child, or the father or mother or a guardian of the child, or any matter reasonably likely to enable any of those persons to be identified, is guilty of an offence against this Act.

(2) This section does not apply in relation to the publication of any matter with the authority of the Court to which the application was made.