Family Law Act 1975

A person commits an indictable offence if the person communicates to the public a list of proceedings, identified by reference to the names of the parties to the proceedings, that are to be dealt with by any of the following under this Act:

a court;

an officer of a court investigating or dealing with a matter in accordance with this Act, the regulations or the applicable Rules of Court;

a tribunal established by or under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.

Subsection (1) does not apply if:

the communication is the publication, by the court, officer or tribunal, of a list of proceedings the court, officer or tribunal is to deal with; or

the communication is:

in accordance with a direction of a court or otherwise approved by a court; or

in accordance with the applicable Rules of Court.

For the purposes of paragraph (a), a list of proceedings a court is to deal with that is published by the court at the court’s premises.

A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in this subsection (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).