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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 No. 24 - SECT 650

650 Prohibited publication about hearing of a disciplinary application

(1) A disciplinary body for a discipline application, either before, during or immediately after a hearing, may make an order prohibiting the publication of information stated in the order that relates to the discipline application, the hearing or an order of the disciplinary body.

(2) A person must not contravene an order under subsection (1).

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

(3) A person must not publish or allow someone else to publish--

(a) a question disallowed by the disciplinary body at the hearing; or
(b) an answer given to a question disallowed by the disciplinary body at the hearing.

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

(4) Also, the disciplinary body may make an order prohibiting--

(a) the issue of the entire or part of a copy of the record made under the Recording of Evidence Act 1962; or
(b) the publication of the entire or part of a copy of the record made under that Act.

(5) A person must not contravene an order under subsection (4).

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

(6) In this section--

publish includes publish on radio, television or the internet.

record includes make an audio recording.



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