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1992 CHAPTER 34 An Act to make provision with respect to anonymity in connection with allegations of, and criminal proceedings relating to, certain sexual offences.

E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.—(1) Where an allegation has been made that an offence to which this Act applies has been committed against a person, neither the name nor address, and no still or moving picture, of that person shall during that person’s lifetime—
 * (a) be published in England and Wales in a written publication available to the public; or
 * (b) be included in a relevant programme for reception in England

and Wales, if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify that person as the person against whom the offence is alleged to have been committed.

(2) Where a person is accused of an offence to which this Act applies, no matter likely to lead members of the public to identify a person as the person against whom the offence is alleged to have been committed (“the complainant”) shall during the complainant's lifetime—
 * (a) be published in England and Wales in a written publication available to the public; or
 * (b) be included in a relevant programme for reception in England and Wales.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) are subject to any direction given under section 3.