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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
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#### 194 Security of certain information
194 Security of certain information
> > (1) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with a copy of a report or another document (or any part of the report or document) if its provision to the person may, in the opinion of a judicial member—
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> > > (a) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a 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 offender who has been released on parole, or
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> > > (f) disclose the contents of any offender’s medical, psychiatric or psychological report.
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> > (1A) 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 (by operation of subsection (1)) required to be provided to a person, if, in the opinion of a judicial member—
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> > > (a) not providing the information to the person is necessary in the public interest, and
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> > > (b) that public interest outweighs any right to procedural fairness that may be denied by not providing the information.
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> > (2) Subsection (1) does not permit the Minister to be denied access to any document held by the Parole Authority.
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> **s 194:** Subst 2000 No 110, Sch 1 \[47\]. Am 2004 No 94, Sch 1 \[57\] \[58\]; 2014 No 6, Sch 1 \[15\].