New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COURT SECURITY ACT 2005 - SECT 9

9 Use of recording devices in court premises

(1) A person must not use a recording device to record sound or images (or both) in court premises.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months (or both).

Note : This subsection only prohibits the use of a recording device to record sound or images (or both) and not any other use of the device. For example, this subsection would not prohibit a person from using a mobile phone with recording capabilities to make a telephone call, but would prohibit the use of the phone to record court proceedings.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply with respect to any of the following--

(a) the use of a recording device that has been expressly permitted by a judicial officer,

(b) the use by a lawyer of a recording device to record the lawyer's own voice in a part of court premises other than a room where a court is sitting,

(c) the use of a recording device by a person for the purpose of transcribing court proceedings for the court,

(d) the use of a recording device by a journalist while exercising a right referred to in section 6 (2),

(e) the use of such recording devices in such other kinds of circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations.