sec.138DChief executive’s request for domestic violence information about relevant person

sec.138D Chief executive’s request for domestic violence information about relevant person

This section applies if the chief executive reasonably believes a domestic violence order may have been made, or a police protection direction or police protection notice may have been issued, against a relevant person. The chief executive may ask the police commissioner for domestic violence information about the relevant person. The police commissioner must comply with a request under subsection (2) by— giving the chief executive the domestic violence information that exists about the relevant person; or telling the chief executive there is no domestic violence information about the relevant person. If there is domestic violence information about the person, the chief executive may ask the police commissioner for a brief description of the circumstances of a domestic violence order, police protection direction or police protection notice mentioned in the domestic violence information. The police commissioner must comply with a request under subsection (4) . If the chief executive no longer needs the information requested— the chief executive must tell the police commissioner the information is no longer needed; and the police commissioner’s obligation to comply with the chief executive’s request ends. s 138D ins 2020 No. 39 s 11 amd 2022 No. 7 s 73 ; 2025 No. 18 s 83 sch 1 (sec.138D-ssec.1) This section applies if the chief executive reasonably believes a domestic violence order may have been made, or a police protection direction or police protection notice may have been issued, against a relevant person. (sec.138D-ssec.2) The chief executive may ask the police commissioner for domestic violence information about the relevant person. (sec.138D-ssec.3) The police commissioner must comply with a request under subsection (2) by— giving the chief executive the domestic violence information that exists about the relevant person; or telling the chief executive there is no domestic violence information about the relevant person. (sec.138D-ssec.4) If there is domestic violence information about the person, the chief executive may ask the police commissioner for a brief description of the circumstances of a domestic violence order, police protection direction or police protection notice mentioned in the domestic violence information. (sec.138D-ssec.5) The police commissioner must comply with a request under subsection (4) . (sec.138D-ssec.6) If the chief executive no longer needs the information requested— the chief executive must tell the police commissioner the information is no longer needed; and the police commissioner’s obligation to comply with the chief executive’s request ends.

• (a) giving the chief executive the domestic violence information that exists about the relevant person; or
• (b) telling the chief executive there is no domestic violence information about the relevant person.