Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025
Queensland
Community Protection and
Public Child Sex Offender
Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill
2025
Queensland
Community Protection and Public Child
Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill
2025
Contents
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1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Amendment of s 3 (Purposes of this Act) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5 Amendment of s 13A (Application) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6 Amendment of s 69 (Access to the register to be restricted) . . . 5
7 Amendment of s 70 (Confidentiality) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8 Insertion of new pt 5AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Part 5AA Daniel’s Law—Publication and disclosure of
information about child sex offenders
Division 1 Preliminary
74AA Definition for part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
74AB Meaning of personal details of reportable offenders . 6
74AC Police commissioner not required to disclose, provide or
publish information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
74AD Interaction with other provisions and laws relating to
disclosure of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
74AE Restriction on information about particular reportable
offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Division 2 Police commissioner may disclose, provide or publish
information relating to reportable offenders
74AF Police commissioner may publish personal details of
particular reportable offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
74AG Police commissioner may provide photographs of particular
reportable offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
74AH Police commissioner may have regard to particular matters
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74AI Police commissioner may disclose whether specified person
is a reportable offender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Division 3 Offences
74AJ Intimidation or harassment of identified offenders . . . 13
74AK Display, distribution or publication of identifying information
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Division 4 Other matters
74AL Protection from liability under part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
74AM Relevant decisions are final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
74AN Override declaration for particular provisions . . . . . . 17
9 Replacement of s 74C (Review of Act) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
74C Review of provisions under part 5AA—Daniel’s Law 17
10 Insertion of new pt 7, div 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Division 8 Transitional provision for Community Protection and
Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Act
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104 Application of particular provisions under part 5AA—Daniel’s
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
11 Amendment of sch 5 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section retrieval-0001 - Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025 - Document excerpt 1 | Zoe
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A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and
Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 for particular purposes
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The Parliament of Queensland enacts—
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Community Protection and
Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Act 2025.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3 Act amended
This Act amends the Child Protection (Offender Reporting
and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004.
4 Amendment of s 3 (Purposes of this Act)
(1) Section 3(1A)—
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(c) to protect the community by facilitating the
release of information relating to particular
offenders in particular circumstances to the
public.
(2) Section 3(2)—
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(g) allows for the disclosure or publication of
information relating to particular reportable
offenders in particular circumstances
through the operation of a public child sex
offender register.
5 Amendment of s 13A (Application)
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6 Amendment of s 69 (Access to the register to be
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(1) Section 69(1)(b), after ‘disclosed’—
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or published
(2) Section 69(2)—
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(2) The police commissioner must develop
guidelines about the access to, and disclosure or
publication of, personal information in the
register that attempt to ensure that access to the
personal information in the register is restricted in
a way that does not interfere with the purposes of
this Act.
7 Amendment of s 70 (Confidentiality)
(1) Section 70(1), after ‘disclose’—
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or publish
(2) Section 70(1), after paragraph (a)—
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(aa) is involved in the administration of part
5AA and discloses or publishes the
information under that part; or
(3) Section 70(1)(aa) and (b)—
renumber as section 70(1)(b) and (c).
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Part 5AA Daniel’s
Law—Publication and
disclosure of
information about child
sex offenders
Division 1 Preliminary
74AA Definition for part
In this part—
personal details, of a reportable offender, see
section 74AB.
74AB Meaning of personal details of reportable
offenders
(1) For this part, the personal details of a reportable
offender are the details mentioned in schedule 2,
items 1, 2, 3 and 9 for the offender.
(2) Also, the personal details of a reportable offender
include—
(a) a photograph or digital image of the
offender; and
(b) a description of—
(i) the general locality of any premises
where the offender resides; or
(ii) if the offender does not generally
reside at particular premises—each
locality where the offender can
generally be found.
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74AC Police commissioner not required to
disclose, provide or publish information
Nothing in this part requires the police
commissioner to disclose, provide or publish
information about any reportable offender or
other person.
74AD Interaction with other provisions and laws
relating to disclosure of information
This part does not limit a power or obligation
under this Act, or another Act or law, to disclose
information relating to a reportable offender.
74AE Restriction on information about particular
reportable offenders
Nothing in this part authorises the police
commissioner to disclose, provide or publish
information about any of the following reportable
offenders—
(a) a reportable offender who is a child;
(b) a reportable offender who committed a
reportable offence as a child but as an adult
has not—
(i) committed a reportable offence; or
(ii) been subject to an offender reporting
order for an offence committed as an
adult; or
(iii) been subject to an offender prohibition
order for concerning conduct engaged
in as an adult; or
(iv) been subject to a division 3 order under
the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual
Offenders) Act 2003;
(c) a reportable offender to whom part 4,
division 9 applies;
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(d) a reportable offender who is subject to an
order of a court that prohibits—
(i) the identification of the offender; or
(ii) the disclosure or publication of the
offender’s whereabouts or other
personal details.
Division 2 Police commissioner may
disclose, provide or
publish information
relating to reportable
offenders
74AF Police commissioner may publish personal
details of particular reportable offenders
(1) The police commissioner may publish any or all
of the personal details of a reportable offender
if—
(a) the police commissioner is satisfied that—
(i) the reportable offender has failed to
comply with any of the offender’s
reporting obligations; or
(ii) the reportable offender is subject to a
relevant supervision order and has
failed to comply with a requirement of
the order; and
(b) the reportable offender’s whereabouts are
not known to the police commissioner.
(2) The police commissioner may at any time remove
any or all of the personal details of a reportable
offender from the website on which they are
published under subsection (1).
(3) Subsection (4) applies if—
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(a) the police commissioner has published any
personal details of a reportable offender
under subsection (1); and
(b) after the reportable offender’s details are
published, the police commissioner
becomes aware of the offender’s
whereabouts.
(4) The police commissioner must, as soon as is
practicable, remove all of the personal details of
the reportable offender from the website on which
the details are published.
(5) In this section—
publish means make available for inspection by
members of the public on a website maintained by
the police commissioner.
relevant supervision order means a supervision
order or an interim supervision order under the
Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act
2003.
74AG Police commissioner may provide
photographs of particular reportable offenders
(1) A person, other than a reportable offender, may
ask the police commissioner to provide to the
person a photograph of each reportable offender
who resides in the locality of the person.
(2) The request must be—
(a) made in a way approved by the police
commissioner; and
(b) accompanied by any documents or
information as required by the police
commissioner.
(3) Subject to this section, the police commissioner
may decide to provide to the person the
photograph of a reportable offender who resides
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in the locality of the person if—
(a) the offender is required to comply with
reporting obligations for a period under
section 37(2), 38(3) or 39(1); or
(b) the offender is required to comply with
reporting obligations imposed on the
offender under part 4 for the remainder of
the offender’s life; or
(c) the offender is subject to a supervision order
under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual
Offenders) Act 2003; or
(d) the offender is deemed to be a serious risk
offender under subsection (5).
(4) The police commissioner must, before a
photograph of a reportable offender mentioned in
subsection (3)(c) is provided for the first time—
(a) give the chief executive (corrective services)
notice; and
(b) consider any submission made by the chief
executive (corrective services).
(5) If the police commissioner considers at any time
that a reportable offender poses a serious risk to
the lives or sexual safety of 1 or more children or
of children generally, the police commissioner
may deem the offender to be a serious risk
offender.
(6) A reportable offender deemed to be a serious risk
offender under subsection (5), is a serious risk
offender until earlier of the following—
(a) the police commissioner deems the offender
is not a serious risk offender;
(b) the offender stops being a reportable
offender.
(7) The police commissioner must not delegate—
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(a) the power to deem a reportable offender to
be a serious risk offender under subsection
(5); and
(b) the power to deem a reportable offender not
to be a serious risk offender under
subsection (6)(a).
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locality, of a person, means the general locality
where the person resides in the State.
photograph includes a digital image.
provide, a photograph to a person, means make
the photograph available for inspection by the
person in a secure way designed to be accessible
only by the person.
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particular matters
(1) This section applies in relation to the police
commissioner when considering whether—
(a) to publish, or remove, the personal details of
a reportable offender under section 74AF
(the identifying information); or
(b) to provide the photograph of a reportable
offender under section 74AG (also the
identifying information).
(2) The police commissioner may have regard to any
of the following matters—
(a) the effect that the publication, removal or
provision of the identifying information
might have on a victim of an offence
committed by the offender;
(b) whether the publication, removal or
provision of the identifying information
would be likely to prejudice—
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(i) a criminal proceeding in relation to the
offender; or
(ii) an investigation by the Queensland
Police Service or other law
enforcement agency of a State or the
Commonwealth in relation to a
contravention or possible contravention
of a law by the offender;
(c) whether the publication, removal or
provision of the identifying information is in
the public interest and consistent with the
purposes of this Act;
(d) any other matter the police commissioner
considers relevant.
74AI Police commissioner may disclose whether
specified person is a reportable offender
(1) This section applies to a person who is a parent of
a child, or someone else having or exercising
parental responsibility, other than on a temporary
basis, for the child.
(2) The person may apply to the police commissioner
for disclosure about whether another person
specified in the application (the specified person)
is a reportable offender.
(3) The application must be—
(a) made in a way approved by the police
commissioner; and
(b) accompanied by any documents or
information as required by the police
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(4) The police commissioner may disclose
information to the person about whether the
specified person is a reportable offender if the
police commissioner is satisfied that the specified
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contact with the child.
(5) In this section—
unsupervised contact, in relation to a person and
a child, includes—
(a) any physical contact the person has had, or
will have, with the child without another
adult present; and
(b) any time the person and child have been
together, or will be together, in close
proximity without another adult present; and
(c) any form of communication, whether in
person or by electronic means, the person
has had, or will have, with the child without
another adult present.
Division 3 Offences
74AJ Intimidation or harassment of identified
offenders
(1) A person must not, by a public act, engage in
conduct by which the person intends to—
(a) intimidate or harass another person they
believe or suspect is an identified offender;
or
(b) incite other persons to intimidate or harass
another person they believe or suspect is an
identified offender.
Maximum penalty—10 years imprisonment.
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