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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
215AVictims register—young offenders
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215A Victims register—young offenders
(1) The director-general must maintain a register of victims of young
offenders.
(2) The director-general must enter in the register information about a
victim of a young offender that the victim, or someone acting for the
victim, asks the director-general to enter in the register.
(3) As soon as practicable after entering the victim’s information in the
register, the director-general must give the victim information, orally
or in writing, about the rights of registered victims under
section 216A to information about young offenders who are
sentenced.
(4) If the victim is a child under 15 years old, the director-general may
(5) Subsection (4) does not limit the cases in which the director-general