As a general rule, an offender's reporting obligations under the Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 (Vic) are irrelevant to sentencing and need not be taken into account as reducing the need for specific deterrence or community protection, unless the reporting obligations operate with unusual severity on a particular offender. The question whether s 5(2BC) of the Sentencing Act 1991 would preclude consideration of reporting conditions that genuinely reduce the risk of reoffending was left open.
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