Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Sections 6 and 7 do not apply to:
(a) a report made for the purposes of an examination of witnesses or a trial, or of a proceeding on appeal arising from a trial;
(b) a report made verbatim of a judgment or decision delivered in a trial or in a proceeding on appeal arising from a trial and contained in a recognized series of law reports; or
(c) a report made to or on behalf of the Agency primarily responsible for law and the administration of justice, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Police Force of the Northern Territory or the Agency primarily responsible for health, welfare and community services, for the purposes of the Department, the Director or Police Force to or on behalf of which it is made.
(2) Section 7 does not apply to a report made concerning an examination of witnesses that reveals a particular, referred to in that section, of a defendant who, as a result of the examination, is committed for trial or sentence on a charge of having committed a sexual offence if the report is made after the committal order is made and does not reveal any such particular of any other defendant who is not so committed.