Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1991 - SECT 59

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person, without authority—

        (a)     possesses an audiovisual recording; or

        (b)     supplies, or offers to supply, an audiovisual recording to another person; or

        (c)     plays, copies or erases, or allows someone else to play, copy or erase, an audiovisual recording.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.

    (2)     For this section, a person has authority in relation to an audiovisual recording only if the person possesses the recording, or does something with the recording, in connection with—

        (a)     the investigation of, or a proceeding for, an offence in relation to which the recording is prepared; or

        (b)     a re-hearing, re-trial or appeal in relation to the proceeding; or

        (c)     another proceeding in which the recording is or may be admitted in evidence under section 56.