Sexual Offences (Evidence and Procedure) Act 1983

For sections 6(3) and 7(2), a statement or representation is exempted if it is published or made:

in a report made verbatim of a judgment or decision delivered in a trial or an appeal proceeding arising from a trial and published in a recognised series of law reports; or

in a report for or to any of the following entities for the purposes of the entity:

the Agency primarily responsible for law and the administration of justice;

the Director of Public Prosecutions;

the Police Force of the Northern Territory;

an Agency primarily responsible for health, welfare and community services; or

for an investigation into a complaint made by or on behalf of a complainant; or

for the purposes of preparing for or conducting an examination of witnesses, a trial or an appeal proceeding arising from a trial; or

in accordance with a court order or direction made under section 9.

For section 7(2), a statement or representation is also exempted if:

it is published or made in a report about an examination of witnesses that discloses any particular of a defendant referred to in section 7(1)(c) who, as a result of the examination, is committed for trial or sentence on a charge of having committed a sexual offence; and

it is published or made after the committal order is made; and

it does not disclose any particular of any other defendant who is not committed.