7Orders

#### 7 Orders (1) The Attorney‑General may, by legislative instrument, make an order prohibiting any one or more of the following acts or things: (a) the production in a foreign court, or to or for the purposes of a foreign authority, of a document that, at the time of the making of the order or at any time while the order is in force, is in Australia; (b) the doing of any act in Australia, in relation to a document that, at the time of the making of the order or at any time while the order is in force, is in Australia: (i) with the intention that the act will result in the document, or evidence of or information about the contents of the document, being produced or given in a foreign court or to or for the purposes of a foreign authority; or (ii) where there is reason to believe that the act will, or is likely to, result in the document, or evidence of or information about the contents of the document, being produced or given in a foreign court or to or for the purposes of a foreign authority; (c) the giving by a person, at a time when he or she is an Australian citizen or a resident of Australia, of evidence or information in a foreign court or to a foreign authority in relation to, or in relation to the contents of, a document that, at the time of the making of the order or at any time while the order is in force, is in Australia; (d) the production of a document in a court in, or to an authority of, Australia, or the giving of evidence or information, whether in relation to the contents of a document or otherwise, in a court in, or to an authority of, Australia, for the purposes of proceedings in a foreign court. (2) An order under this section may: (a) be directed to a particular person, to persons included in a class of persons or to persons generally; (b) relate to a particular foreign court or foreign authority, to courts included in a class of foreign courts or authorities included in a class of foreign authorities or to foreign courts or foreign authorities generally; and (c) relate to a particular document or to documents included in a class of documents. (3) Where the Attorney‑General makes an order under subsection (1) that has effect in relation to a document, the order also has effect in relation to any copy of that document that, at the time of the making of the order or at any time while the order remains in force, is in Australia, whether the copy was made before or after the making of the order, as if the copy were the document. (4) Where the Attorney‑General, being satisfied of the matters mentioned in subsection 6(3), (4) or (5), makes an order under subsection (1) prohibiting the doing of a specified act or thing, the Attorney‑General may: (a) provide, in the order, that the doing of that act or thing is not prohibited in specified circumstances; or (b) consent in writing to the doing of that act or thing; and, where the Attorney‑General has consented as mentioned in paragraph (b) to the doing of an act or thing, a person shall not be taken to have contravened the order by reason that he or she has done that act or thing.