Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person who takes
or causes to be taken or publishes or causes to be published any photograph or
likeness or other pictorial representation of any person summoned to attend or
empanelled as a juror for any trial whether civil or criminal commits a
contempt of the Supreme Court and is punishable accordingly by that court.
[(2) deleted]
(3) Without affecting
any other liability of any person under this section or otherwise, a company
or other body corporate is liable to any punishment or penalty for any offence
under this section as if it were a private person so far as the punishment or
penalty is enforceable against a company or body corporate; and if any
director, manager, secretary, or officer, of a company or any member of the
managing body of a body corporate commits, or knowingly authorises or permits,
an offence under this section he also is liable to the punishment or penalty
for the offence.
(4) Nothing in this
section applies to the publication of information with regard to any
proceedings under this section whether for contempt of court or for a
punishment or penalty.
[Section 57 amended: No. 30 of 1961 s. 3; No. 34
of 1976 s. 3.]