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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
216ADisclosures to registered victims—young offenders
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216A Disclosures to registered victims—young offenders
(1) If a young offender has been sentenced, the director-general may
disclose information about the young offender to a registered victim
of the young 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 young
offender
2 if the young offender is under a good behaviour order—the place where the
young offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation
program
3 if the young offender is to be released from imprisonment—when and where
the young offender will be released
(2) However, the director-general must not disclose identifying
information for the young offender unless the offence was a personal
violence offence and the director-general believes that the victim, or
a family member of the victim, may come into contact with the young
1 the victim and young offender live in the same neighbourhood and may see
each other at the local shopping centre
2 the victim and young offender may be enrolled at the same school
(3) 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.
(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the cases in which the director-general
family violence offence—see the Family Violence Act 2016,
personal violence offence means—
(a) an offence that involves causing harm, or threatening to cause
harm, to anyone; or
(b) a family violence offence.