Official Visitor Act 2012

The relevant director-general for a visitable place must keep a register of each visitable place mentioned under the relevant operational Act.

The register—

must include—

the address of each visitable place; and

if relevant for a visitable place—the contact details of a person who can provide access to the place; and

any information prescribed by an operational Act; and

may include—

the name of each entitled person at each visitable place; and

the name and contact details of each operating entity for each visitable place; and

if an operating entity for a visitable place is not an individual—the name, phone number and email address of the following:

an employee or volunteer based at the place;

2 employees of the entity.

The relevant director-general for a visitable place must, on request, give information on the register to any of the following:

an official visitor for the place;

the official visitors board;

the official visitors executive officer;

the public advocate;

the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner;

a commissioner under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005;

the senior practitioner.

The relevant director-general for a visitable place may, on request, give the information mentioned in subsection (2) (a) to any of the following people, if satisfied giving the information is reasonable in the circumstances:

a person exercising a function under this Act or the operational Act;

a member of the emergency services under the Emergencies Act 2004;

an entitled person at the place;

a carer or legal representative of an entitled person at the place;

anyone else approved by the relevant director-general.

In this section:

carer—see the Guardianship and Management of Property Act 1991, section 6.

legal representative, of an entitled person who does not have legal capacity, means the person’s parent or guardian.