Sexual Offences (Evidence and Procedure) Act 1983

A person commits an offence if:

the person intentionally publishes or makes a statement or representation; and

the statement or representation is published or made before a defendant is committed for trial or sentence on a charge of having committed the sexual offence to which the statement or representation relates; and

the publication or making of the statement or representation results in the disclosure of any of the following particulars:

the name, address, school or place of employment of a defendant;

any other particular likely to lead to the identification of the defendant; and

the person is reckless in relation to the circumstance referred to in paragraph (b) and the result referred to in paragraph (c).

Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a statement or representation exempted under section 8.