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Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987
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#### 91 Security of certain information
91 Security of certain information
> > (1) (Repealed)
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> > (2) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with a copy of a report or another document, or part of the report or document, if its provision to the person may, in the opinion of a Children’s Judge—
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> > > (a) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a detention centre or correctional centre, or
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> > > (b) endanger the person or any other person, or
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> > > (c) jeopardise the conduct of any lawful investigation, or
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> > > (d) prejudice the public interest, or
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> > > (e) adversely affect the supervision of any juvenile offender who has been released on parole.
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> > (3) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with information about the content of a report or other document, a copy of which is not required to be provided to a person by operation of subsection (2), if, in the opinion of a Children’s Judge—
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> > > (a) not providing the information to the person is necessary in the public interest, and
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> > > (b) the public interest outweighs any right to procedural fairness that may be denied by not providing the information.
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> > (4) Subsection (2) does not permit the Minister to be denied access to any document held by the Children’s Court.
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> **s 91:** Ins 2017 No 57, Sch 2 \[3\]. Am 2020 No 26, Sch 1.2\[6\]–\[8\]; 2025 No 61, Sch 2.9\[7\].