Young Offenders Act 1993

The Chief Executive must keep a Victims Register for the purposes of this Act.

The victim of an offence for which a youth is sentenced to detention or imprisonment or, if the victim is dead or under an incapacity or in prescribed circumstances, a member of the victim's immediate family, may apply in writing to the Chief Executive to have the following information entered in the Victims Register:

the applicant's name;

the applicant's contact address and (if supplied) telephone number or the name, contact address and (if supplied) telephone number of a person nominated by the applicant to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf;

any information (including the name of the youth) in the applicant's possession that may assist the Chief Executive to identify the youth.

The Chief Executive is entitled to assume the accuracy of information supplied under subsection (2) without further inquiry.

The Victims Register must also contain any other information prescribed by the regulations.

The Chief Executive must, when requested to do so by the Training

Centre Review Board, provide the Board with information derived from the

Victims Register.

If the Victims Register includes particulars of a person nominated by a registered victim to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf, any information or notification required or authorised by this Act to be given to the registered victim must, instead, be given to the person so nominated (and where such information or notification is to be given at the request of the registered victim, the person so nominated is entitled to make such a request as if he or she were the registered victim).

A person must not divulge information derived from the Victims

Register, being information obtained (whether by the person or some other person) in the administration or enforcement of this Act, except—

as required or authorised by this Act or any other Act or law;

or

as reasonably required in connection with the administration or enforcement of this Act or any other prescribed Act; or

for the purposes of legal proceedings arising out of the administration or enforcement of this Act; or

with the consent of the registered victim to whom the information relates.