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SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 66ZZB

Court may prohibit publication of proceedings

    (1)     The court may order that a person must not publish, or cause to be published, a report of a proceeding under this Part or about an order made under this Part that contains any particulars likely to lead to the identification of—

        (a)     the registrable offender or corresponding registrable offender; or

        (b)     a victim of an offence committed by the registrable offender or corresponding registrable offender; or

        (c)     any person protected by a prohibition order, a registration order or a corresponding prohibition order.

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), the particulars likely to lead to the identification of a person include, but are not limited to, the following—

        (a)     the person's name, title, pseudonym or alias;

        (b)     the address of any premises at which the person lives or works, or the locality in which the premises are situated;

        (c)     the address of a school attended by the person or the locality in which the school is situated;

        (d)     the physical description or the style of dress of the person;

        (e)     any employment or occupation engaged in, profession practised or calling pursued by, the person or any official or honorary position held by the person;

        (f)     the relationship of the person to identified relatives of the person or the association of the person with identified friends or identified business, official or professional acquaintances of the person;

        (g)     the recreational interests or the political, philosophical or religious beliefs or interests of the person;

        (h)     any real or personal property in which the person has an interest or with which the person is associated.

    (3)     An order under subsection (1) does not prohibit the publication of particulars that are likely to lead to the identification of a registrable offender by—

        (a)     the Chief Commissioner of Police under section 61A(1); or

        (b)     if those particulars have been published by the Chief Commissioner of Police under section 61A(1), any other person.

S. 66ZZC inserted by No. 21/2016 s. 8.



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