91Security of certain information

91 Security of certain information

91 Security of certain information

(1) (Repealed)

(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—

(a) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a detention centre or correctional centre, or

(b) endanger the person or any other person, or

(c) jeopardise the conduct of any lawful investigation, or

(d) prejudice the public interest, or

(e) adversely affect the supervision of any juvenile offender who has been released on parole.

(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—

(a) not providing the information to the person is necessary in the public interest, and

(b) the public interest outweighs any right to procedural fairness that may be denied by not providing the information.

(4) Subsection (2) does not permit the Minister to be denied access to any document held by the Children’s Court.

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].