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variation of such an order, a chance to be heard before the order or variation is made.
Division 2—Stopping communications
Communications stop orders
30.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may, after granting a special authorisation, make a communications stop order which bans one or both of the following during the period specified in the order:
- (a) the making by any person (except an excluded person) of a relevant film or picture;
- (b) the exhibiting and communicating by any person (except an excluded person) of a relevant film or picture or a relevant text or audio message.
(2) The Commissioner may make a communications stop order only—
- (a) during the period a special authorisation (which is granted in relation to a serious incident or threatened serious incident) is in effect; and
- (b) if, in the Commissioner’s opinion, exhibiting or communicating (whether or not to the public) a relevant film or picture or a relevant text or audio message during the period the special authorisation is in effect—
- (i) prejudices the effective conduct of an ongoing law enforcement activity relating to the serious incident or threatened serious incident; or
- (ii) endangers the safety of the public or any law enforcement officer during an ongoing law enforcement activity relating to the serious incident or threatened serious incident.
