(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person publishes (completely or partly) an account or report of a proceeding on an application for a protection order; and
(b) the account or report—
(i) identifies a party to the proceeding; or
(ii) identifies a person who is related to, or associated with, a party to the proceeding or is, or is claimed to be, in any other way concerned in the matter to which the proceeding relates; or
(iii) identifies a witness to the proceeding; or
(iv) allows the identity of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) to be worked out.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
Note Section 112 contains exceptions to an offence under s (1).
(2) In this section:
"publish" means communicate or disseminate information in a way or to an extent that makes it available to, or likely to come to the notice of, the public or a section of the public or anyone else not lawfully entitled to the information.