New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CASINO CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 143B

143B Restriction on publication of information

(1) The person presiding at an inquiry being conducted by or on behalf of the NICC under section 143 may, by order in writing, direct that--

(a) any evidence given at the inquiry, or

(b) the contents of any document, or a description of any thing, produced at the inquiry, or

(c) any information that might enable a person who has given or may be about to give evidence at the inquiry to be identified or located, or

(d) the fact that any person has given or may be about to give evidence at the inquiry,

is not to be published at all, or is not to be published except in such manner, and to such persons, as the person presiding at the inquiry may specify.

(2) Such a direction is not to be given unless the person presiding at the inquiry is satisfied that the direction is necessary in the public interest or that there are other exceptional circumstances that require the direction to be given.

(3) A person must not make a publication in contravention of a direction given under this section.

Maximum penalty (subsection (3)): 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.