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Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Amendment Act 2025 Act No. of 2025 Part 2 – Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 Amended s. 47 69 (a) to ensure that the reportable offender is not committing, or has not committed, a reportable offence or an offence against this Act; (b) to verify any personal details reported by the reportable offender. (2) Before entering premises under subsection (1), a police officer must communicate to, or attempt to communicate to, a reportable offender within the premises the police officer’s authority to enter the premises, unless the police officer reasonably believes that communicating or attempting to communicate with the reportable offender would be likely to endanger any person or lead to the loss or destruction of evidence in relation to the commission of a reportable offence or an offence against this Act. (3) In entering into, remaining on, searching and inspecting any place, premises, conveyance, container or device under subsection (1), a police officer may exercise all or any of the following powers: (a) use any force as is reasonably necessary;

Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Amendment Act 2025 Act No. of 2025 s. 47 Part 2 – Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 Amended 70 (b) inspect, take copies of or seize any records, documents or other things that the police officer considers relevant that are kept at, or in, the place, premises, conveyance or container; (c) break open and search any cupboards, drawers, chests, trunks, boxes, packages or other things, whether fixtures or not; (d) require any conveyance to be stopped; (e) inspect any computer, mobile telephone or device capable of storing electronic data; (f) seize, retain, conduct an examination (including a forensic examination) of or remove from the place, premises, conveyance or container any thing that the police officer reasonably believes is, or may contain, evidence of the commission of a reportable offence, or an offence against this Act, by the reportable offender. (4) A reportable offender must allow a police officer to enter into, remain on, search and inspect any place, premises, conveyance, container or device for the purposes of this section and must

Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Amendment Act 2025 Act No. of 2025 Part 2 – Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 Amended s. 47 71 cooperate with the police officer with respect to that entry, search and inspection. Penalty: Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both. (5) If a reportable offender is aware that, in order to gain access to data stored on a computer, mobile telephone or other device being inspected or removed by a police officer under this section, it is necessary to enter any password, code or other information, or to perform any function in relation to the data, he or she must provide the police officer with that password, code or information or assist the police officer in performing that function. Penalty: Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both. (6) This section does not authorise the entry into any part of a place that is being used solely for residential purposes by a person other than a reportable offender, except – (a) with the consent of that person; or (b) under the authority of a search warrant.