National Defence Act

Marginal note:Publication prohibited

• 303 (1) No person shall publish in any document, or broadcast or transmit in any way, any of the following:

  • (a) the contents of an application made under section 180.03;

  • (b) any evidence taken, information given or submissions made at a hearing under subsection 180.04(1) or 180.06(2);

  • (c) the determination of a military judge in respect of the making of an order under subsection 180.05(1) or 180.07(1) and the reasons provided under section 180.08, unless the military judge, after taking into account the interests of military justice and the right to privacy of the person to whom the record relates, orders that the determination and the reasons may be published, broadcast or transmitted.

• Marginal note:Offence

  (2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

• Marginal note:Definition of record

  (3) In this section, record has the same meaning as in section 180.01.