EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 68

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 68

68—Interpretation

In this Part—

"court" includes any person acting judicially;

"evidence" includes any statement made before a court whether or not the statement constitutes evidence for the purposes of the proceedings before the court;

"interim suppression order" means a suppression order under section 69A(3);

"news media" means those who carry on the business of publishing;

"newspaper" means a newspaper, journal, magazine or other publication that is published at periodic intervals;

"primary court", in relation to an appeal, means the court by which the decision or order subject to appeal was made;

"publish" means publish by newspaper, radio or television, or on the internet, or by other similar means of communication to the public;

"suppression order" means an order—

            (a)         forbidding the publication of specified evidence or of any account or report of specified evidence; or

            (b)         forbidding the publication of the name of—

                  (i)         a party or witness; or

                  (ii)         a person alluded to in the course of proceedings before the court,

and of any other material tending to identify any such person.