Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 - SECT 42

PART 5 MISCELLANEOUS

Suppression orders

42. Suppression orders



(1) In any proceeding before a court under this Act, the court, if satisfied
that it is in the public interest to do so, may order-

   (a)  that any evidence given in the proceeding; or

   (b)  that the content of any report or other document put before the court
        in the proceeding; or

   (c)  that any information that might enable an offender or another person
        who has appeared or given evidence in the proceeding to be identified-

must not be published except in the manner and to the extent (if any)
specified in the order.

(2) An order under this section may be made on the application of a party or
on the court's own initiative.

(3) A person must not publish or cause to be published any material in
contravention of an order under this section.

Penalty: 500 penalty units in the case of a body corporate; 120 penalty units
or imprisonment for 1 year or both in any other case.