Health Act 1993
87Prohibited behaviour in or in relation to protected area
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87 Prohibited behaviour in or in relation to protected area (1) A person commits an offence if the person— (a) is in a protected area; and (b) engages in prohibited behaviour. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. (2) A person commits an offence if— (a) the person publishes captured visual data of a person (the recorded person) entering or leaving, or trying to enter or leave, a protected facility; and (b) the person does so with the intention of stopping a person from— (i) having an abortion; or (ii) providing a surgical abortion; or (iii) prescribing, supplying or administering an abortifacient; and (c) the recorded person did not consent to the publication. publish, captured visual data— (a) means communicate or distribute visual data 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 visual data; and
(b) includes— (i) entering into an agreement or arrangement to do a thing mentioned in paragraph (a); and (ii) attempting to do a thing mentioned in paragraph (a) or subparagraph (i).