{"id":"high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020","name":"High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020","slug":"high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":176833,"registerId":"wa-high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nHigh Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020\n\nHigh Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020\n\nWestern Australia\n\nHigh Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020\n\nContents\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Commencement 1\n\n3. Relevant agencies 1\n\n4. Serious offences (s. 5) 1\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 4\n\n  \n\nHigh Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020\n\nHigh Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\n\t\tThese regulations are the *High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020*.\n\n##### 2. Commencement\n\nThese regulations come into operation as follows —\n\n(a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the *Gazette*;\n\n(b) the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.\n\n##### 3. Relevant agencies\n\nEach of the following is designated as a relevant agency —\n\n(a) the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the  *Children and Community Services Act 2004*;\n\n(b) the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the *Prisons Act 1981*;\n\n(c) the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the *Sentence Administration Act 2003*;\n\n(d) the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the *Victims of Crime Act 1994*.\n\n##### 4. Serious offences (s. 5)\n\nEach offence specified in the Table is prescribed for the purposes of section 5(5) to be a serious offence.\n\nTable\n\n| **Item** | **Provision** | **Description of offence** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Offences under *The Criminal Code* set out in the Schedule to the *Criminal Code Act 1995* (Commonwealth) | | |\n| 1. | s. 272.15 | “Grooming” child to engage in sexual activity outside Australia |\n| 2. | s. 272.15A | “Grooming” person to make it easier to engage in sexual activity with a child outside Australia |\n| 3. | s. 273A.1 | Possession of child‑like sex dolls etc. |\n| 4. | s. 474.19 (as in force immediately before 21 September 2019) | Using a carriage service for child pornography material |\n| 5. | s. 474.22 | Using a carriage service for child abuse material |\n| 6. | s. 474.22A | Possessing or controlling child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service |\n| 7. | s. 474.23A | Conduct for the purposes of electronic service used for child abuse material |\n| 8. | s. 474.24A | Aggravated offence — offence involving conduct on 3 or more occasions and 2 or more people |\n| 9. | s. 474.25B | Aggravated offence — using a carriage service for sexual activity with person under 16 years of age |\n| 10. | s. 474.25C | Using a carriage service to prepare or plan to cause harm to, engage in sexual activity with, or procure for sexual activity, persons under 16 |\n| 11. | s. 474.26 | Using a carriage service to procure persons under 16 years of age |\n| 12. | s. 474.27 | Using a carriage service to “groom” persons under 16 years of age |\n| 13. | s. 474.27AA | Using a carriage service to “groom” another person to make it easier to procure persons under 16 years of age |\n| 14. | s. 474.27A | Using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to person under 16 years of age |\n\n\n[Regulation 4 inserted: SL 2020/236 r. 6.]\n\n![]()\n\nNotes\n\nThis is a compilation of the *High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020* and includes amendments made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation see the compilation table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Published** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020* | SL 2020/181 25 Sep 2020 | r. 1 and 2: 25 Sep 2020 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 26 Sep 2020 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *Attorney General Regulations Amendment (High Risk Serious Offenders) Regulations 2020* Pt. 3 | SL 2020/236 4 Dec 2020 | 5 Dec 2020 (see r. 2(b)) |\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as the legislative text was not accessible in the provided source material. The URL appears to have changed following a system upgrade to the Western Australian legislation website."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was available for analysis — only an error/404 page was provided","Complexity cannot be meaningfully assessed without access to the actual content","Score of 1 reflects absence of analysable material, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"## High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020 (WA)\n\n**The page containing this legislation is unavailable.** The source provided does not contain the actual text of the High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020 — only an error message indicating the webpage has been taken down or moved during a system upgrade.\n\n**What we can infer from the title alone:**\nThis is a Western Australian regulation (subordinate law that supports a parent Act) dealing with the management of people classified as high-risk serious offenders — typically individuals convicted of serious violent or sexual offences who may pose an ongoing danger to the community after serving their sentence.\n\n**To find the actual legislation**, visit the Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office website (legislation.wa.gov.au) and search for \"High Risk Serious Offenders Regulations 2020\" directly."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly scoped to their original purpose: operationalising the parent Act by designating agencies and prescribing serious offences. No scope creep detected."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (4 substantive regulations)","No defined terms section - relies on parent Act definitions","Simple tabular structure for listing offences","Minimal conditional logic (only commencement provisions have basic conditions)","No cross-referencing maze - straightforward references to parent Act sections","Single amendment incorporated (Regulation 4 insertion)"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations support Western Australia's **High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020**, which is designed to keep the community safe from dangerous offenders who might reoffend after their prison sentence ends.\n\n**What these regulations do:**\n\n*   **Name the government agencies** that must be consulted or involved when decisions are made under the Act. These include departments handling child protection, prisons, sentence management, and victim support.\n*   **List specific serious crimes** that trigger the Act's powers. These are all Commonwealth (federal) offences involving child sexual abuse, child exploitation material (often called child pornography), and \"grooming\" (manipulating or preparing a child for sexual abuse). The offences cover online activities like using internet services to share abuse material or communicate with children.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\n*   Government departments managing offenders and victims\n*   High-risk offenders convicted of serious child sexual offences who may face extended supervision or detention orders after their sentence\n*   Victims of these crimes\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThe regulations ensure the right agencies are looped into decisions about dangerous offenders, and they clearly define which child-related sexual offences are considered \"serious\" enough to warrant ongoing monitoring or detention under Western Australia's scheme."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"These regulations do not expand the Act’s substantive powers. They prescribe which offences are treated as 'serious offences' for the purposes of section 5(5) and designate the state agencies responsible for implementation (regs 3–4). In effect the instrument specifies operational scope rather than changing the Act’s core reach; any change to who is captured will follow from amending the Table or the cited Commonwealth provisions."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑jurisdictional references: the Table prescribes offences by citing specific sections of the Commonwealth Criminal Code (eg. s.272.15, s.474.22) rather than restating elements.","Reliance on parent Act: the regulations operate to give effect to section 5(5) of the High Risk Serious Offenders Act by prescribing which offences are 'serious offences'.","Multiple agency coordination: reg. 3 designates four separate state departments (Children and Community Services; Prisons; Sentence Administration; Victims of Crime) as 'relevant agencies', creating inter‑agency implementation tasks.","Temporal detail: reg. 2 sets staggered commencement (regs 1–2 on publication day; others the next day), and Schedule entries note an earlier in‑force version for s.474.19 (as in force immediately before 21 Sep 2019).","Amendment history: the compilation table and inserted regulation note (SL 2020/236 r.6) show the need to track later legislative instruments that modify the prescribed list.","Legal precision required: the Table’s effect depends on exact statutory wording and on updates to the cited Commonwealth provisions, creating monitoring and compliance burdens for agencies and courts."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations formally name which Commonwealth Criminal Code offences count as “serious offences” for the High Risk Serious Offenders Act and identify four state departments as the relevant agencies. They also set the regulations’ commencement dates. This matters because being listed triggers the Act’s machinery for supervising or managing persons convicted of those offences and assigns which state agencies must participate; the list cross‑references Commonwealth provisions, so amendments to those offences affect who is captured."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020","history":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020/history","analysis":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/high-risk-serious-offenders-regulations-2020/documents"}}