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Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004
66BSexual safety of the community paramount in prohibition order decisions
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66B Sexual safety of the community paramount in prohibition order decisions
(1) The court must give paramount consideration to the sexual safety of the community in deciding whether to—
(a) make, vary, revoke or extend a prohibition order; or
(b) vary a corresponding prohibition order before registration or vary a registration order.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), it is not necessary that the court be able to identify a risk posed by the registrable offender to the sexual safety of a particular person or a particular class of person.
New s. 66C inserted by No. 21/2016 s. 8.