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Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Registration) Act 2004
88Restriction on publication of identity of reportable offenders
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88 Restriction on publication of identity of reportable offenders
and victims
(1) A person must not, in relation to any proceedings relating to a
prohibition order, publish:
(a) personal information of the person in respect of whom the
order is sought or any such order is made; or
(b) the name of any victim of a reportable offence committed by a
reportable offender; or
(c) the name of any particular person referred to as a person at
risk because of the conduct proposed to be prohibited; or
(d) any matter reasonably likely to enable a person referred to in
paragraph (b) or (c) to be identified.
2 years.
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(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the publication of any
matter with the authority of the court to which the application was
made or any publication by a person of his or her name.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the publication of any
matter to any of the following:
(a) the reportable offender;
(b) a person or class of persons specified in the order concerned;
(c) a police officer or a member of a law enforcement agency of
the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory in that
member's official capacity;
(d) a person involved in the administration of the order;
(e) a member of staff of a public authority involved in the
assessment and management of the reportable offender;
(f) a person for the purpose of an investigation of an alleged
breach of the order or a person involved in proceedings for
any such breach;
(g) any other person to whom the matter is required or authorised
to be disclosed by or under any Act or law.