Offence to contravene victim privacy order or interim victim privacy order
4Q Offence to contravene victim privacy order or interim victim privacy order
A person must not engage in conduct that constitutes a contravention of a victim privacy order or an interim victim privacy that is in force if that person knows that the victim privacy order or interim victim privacy order, as the case requires, is in force.
Penalty: in the case of a natural person, imprisonment for 4 months or 20 penalty units, or both;
in the case of a body corporate, 50 penalty units.
For the purposes of subsection (1), in the absence of evidence to the contrary, a person is taken to be aware that a victim privacy order or an interim victim privacy order is in force if a court has electronically transmitted notice of the order to the person.
Note to s. 4Q inserted by No. 20/2023 s. 52.
Note
Other Acts may provide that this section does not prevent certain disclosures of information. For example, see Division 6 of Part 9.2 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
S. 4R inserted by No. 35/2021 s. 8.
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