Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL LAW (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 1978 - SECT 10

10 When other publication of complainant’s identity is prohibited

(1) A person who, by a statement or representation made or published otherwise than in a report concerning an examination of witnesses or a trial, reveals the name, address, school or place of employment, or any other particular that is likely to lead to the identification of a complainant commits an offence except where the statement or representation is made or published for an authorised purpose referred to in section 11 .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment; or

(b) for a corporation—1,000 penalty units.

Note—

If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 12 , to have also committed the offence.

(2) It is a defence to a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) for a person to prove that, before the relevant statement or representation was made or published—

(a) the complainant authorised in writing the making or the publishing of the statement or representation; and

(b) when the complainant authorised the making or the publishing of the statement or representation, the complainant—

(i) was at least 18 years; and

(ii) had capacity to give the authorisation.

(3) In this section—

"capacity" see the Guardianship and Administration Act 2000 , schedule 4 .