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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
216Disclosures to registered victims—offenders other than
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216 Disclosures to registered victims—offenders other than
young offenders
(1) If an offender has been sentenced, the director-general may disclose
information about the offender to a registered victim of the offender
if satisfied the disclosure is appropriate in the circumstances.
Examples—disclosures
1 any non-association order or place restriction order that applies to the offender
2 if the offender is under an intensive correction order—the place where the
offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
3 if the offender is under a good behaviour order—the place where the offender
may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
4 if the offender is serving a sentence of imprisonment by full-time detention—
• the correctional centre where the offender is detained;
• the offender’s classification in detention;
• the transfer of the offender between correctional centres, including
NSW correctional centres;
• the offender’s parole eligibility date;
• any unescorted leave given to the offender under the Corrections
Management Act 2007;
• the death or escape of, or any other exceptional event relating to, the
(2) If the victim is a child under 15 years old, the director-general may
Note The Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005, s 136 (Information exchanges
between criminal justice entities) also deals with information about a
victim of an offence.
(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the cases in which the director-general
offender does not include a young offender.