Failure to comply with reporting obligations under the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act 2000 (NSW) constitutes distinct criminality that should not be subsumed within sentences for subsequent child pornography offences, warranting a not insignificant degree of accumulation. The protective purposes of the registration regime — providing police intelligence, assisting offender management, and providing victims with security — require that breach of the regime be separately punished even where the unreported matters are connected to the subsequent offending.
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