Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 40 of 1987 - SECT 29

29. After section 54A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Commissioner may restrict publication, &c.

"54AA. (1) A Commissioner may give directions prohibiting or limiting the
publication of, or access to, information given, or a book, document or other
record produced, to the Commissioner under this Act.

"(2) Where information is to be publicly given, or a book, document or other
record is to be publicly produced, to a Commissioner under this Act, the
Commissioner may give directions requiring that persons specified in the
direction, or persons included in a class of persons specified in the
direction, are not to be in the vicinity of the place where the information is
to be given, or the book, document or other record produced, as the case may
be.

"(3) A person who knowingly contravenes or fails to comply with a direction
given under this section is guilty of an offence punishable, on summary
conviction, by -

   (a)  in the case of a natural person - a fine of $2,000 or imprisonment for
        12 months, or both; or

   (b)  in the case of a body corporate - a fine of $10,000.".