COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 106
COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 106
106 . Restriction on publication of identity of reportable offenders and victims
(1) A person must not,
in relation to any proceedings relating to a protection order, publish —
(a)
personal information relating to the person in respect of whom the order is
sought or any such order is made;
(b) the
name of any victim of a reportable offence committed by a reportable offender;
(c) the
name of any particular person referred to as a person at risk because of the
conduct proposed to be prohibited;
(d) any
matter reasonably likely to enable a person referred to in paragraph (b) or
(c) to be identified.
Penalty: a fine of $12 000 and imprisonment for 2
years.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not apply in relation to the publication of any matter with the authority
of the court to which the application was made or any publication by a person
of his or her name.
(3) Subsection (1)
does not apply in relation to the publication of any matter to —
(a) the
reportable offender; or
(b) a
person specified, or of a class specified, in the order concerned; or
(c) a
police officer or a member of a law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth or
another State or a Territory in that police officer’s or member’s
official capacity; or
(d) a
person involved in the administration of the order; or
(e) a
member of staff of a public authority involved in the assessment and
management of the reportable offender; or
(f) a
person for the purpose of an investigation of an alleged breach of the order
or to a person involved in proceedings for any such breach; or
(g) any
other person to whom the matter is required or authorised to be disclosed by
or under any written or other law.
[Section 106 amended: No. 54 of 2012 s. 42(2).]