Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004

The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or authorised by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made for or with respect to —

matters incidental to the making of reports under Part 3 including —

the manner and form in which a report must be made; and

the nature of any verifying documentation or evidence to be produced in support of a report; and

requiring that a report contain information additional to that required by that Part;

the form of, or the information to be included in, any notice or other document that is required by this Act to be given to reportable offenders; and

the manner and form in which the Register is to be established and maintained, including the manner and form in which information is to be entered in the Register; and

requiring or authorising the Commissioner to remove specified information, or information of a specified class, from the Register; and

the notification of reporting obligations to reportable offenders, including —

the manner and form in which the information is to be given to reportable offenders; and

requiring the reportable offender to acknowledge being given the notice and prescribing how that acknowledgment is to be given; and

making special provision for the notification of reportable offenders who are children or who have disabilities or other special needs; and

requiring or authorising a person to be notified of a reportable offender’s status as a child or person who has a disability or other special need to facilitate notification and reporting; and

providing for the notification to be given to a carer of, or a person nominated by, a reportable offender who may be unable to understand the offender’s reporting obligations or the consequences of failing to comply with those obligations; and

requiring that a reportable offender be given additional information to that required by this Act; and

requiring a person to provide specified information to reportable offenders concerning their reporting obligations; and

requiring a person to inform the Commissioner —

that a reportable offender has left the custody or control of the person;

that the person has given specified information to a reportable offender;

that, in the opinion of the person, a reportable offender does or does not have the legal capacity to understand specified information;

requiring a person to give the Commissioner any acknowledgment by a reportable offender of the receipt of a notice or any other specified information that is held by the person;

empowering the Commissioner to give directions as to which police stations or approved places are to be used as a venue for the making of reports; and

requiring a person to create records for the purposes of this Act and to retain those records for a specified period or an unlimited period; and

prescribing a person who falls within a specified class of persons as a corresponding reportable offender for the purposes of this Act; and

stating that an order of a specified class made under a specified corresponding Act is a corresponding offender reporting order for the purposes of this Act.

The regulations may provide that a contravention of a regulation is an offence and prescribe, for an offence against the regulations, a penalty not exceeding a fine of $6 000.