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PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 2002 - SECT 201

Breaching directions preventing or restricting publication

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person publishes a matter contained in answers given or documents produced in the course of an * examination; and

  (b)   the publication is in contravention of a direction given under section   193 by the * approved examiner who conducted the examination.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (2)   This section does not apply to disclosure of a matter:

  (a)   to obtain legal advice or legal representation in relation to the order; or

  (b)   for the purposes of, or in the course of, legal proceedings.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in subsection   (2): see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .

 



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