CRIMINAL LAW (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 1978 - SECT 10
When other publication of complainant’s identity is prohibited
CRIMINAL LAW (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 1978 - SECT 10
When other publication of complainant’s identity is prohibited
10 When other publication of complainant’s identity is prohibited
(1) A person who, by a statement or representation made or published otherwise
than in a report concerning an examination of witnesses or a trial, reveals
the name, address, school or place of employment, or any other particular that
is likely to lead to the identification of a complainant commits an offence
except where the statement or representation is made or published for an
authorised purpose referred to in section 11.
Penalty—
Maximum
penalty—
(a) for an individual—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment;
or
(b) for a corporation—1,000 penalty units.
Note—
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an
executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 12, to have
also committed the offence.
(2) It is a defence to a proceeding for an
offence against subsection (1) for a person to prove that, before the relevant
statement or representation was made or published—
(a) the complainant
authorised in writing the making or the publishing of the statement or
representation; and
(b) when the complainant authorised the making or the
publishing of the statement or representation, the complainant—