Section 91X — Names of applicants for protection visas not to be published by the High Court, Federal Court or Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2)

91X Names of applicants for protection visas not to be published by the High Court, Federal Court or Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2)

(1) This section applies to a proceeding before the High Court, the Federal Court or the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) if the proceeding relates to a person in the person’s capacity as:

(a) a person who applied for a protection visa; or

(b) a person who applied for a protection-related bridging visa; or

(c) a person whose protection visa has been cancelled; or

(d) a person whose protection-related bridging visa has been cancelled.

(2) The court must not publish (in electronic form or otherwise), in relation to the proceeding, the person’s name.

(3) In this section: application for a protection-related bridging visa means an application for a bridging visa, where the applicant for the bridging visa is, or has been, an applicant for a protection visa. proceeding means a proceeding in a court, whether between parties or not, and includes an incidental proceeding in the course of, or in connection with, a proceeding, and also includes an appeal. protection-related bridging visa means a bridging visa granted as a result of an application for a protection-related bridging visa.

Subdivision B—The “points” system