216ADisclosures to registered victims—young offenders

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.