Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004

If a report is required to be made in person, the person making the report must also —

present for inspection to verify or support details in the report —

any passport that the reportable offender holds; or

if the reportable offender does not hold a passport — the identification documents, relating to the identity of the reportable offender, required by subsection (2A);

provide a photograph of the reportable offender’s head and face of a type suitable for use in an Australian passport; and

if not the reportable offender — present for inspection —

any passport that the person holds; or

if the person does not hold a passport — the identification documents, relating to the identity of the person making the report, required by subsection (2A).

For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(ii) and (c)(ii), the identification documents required are —

any one of the following —

a current driver’s licence that displays a photograph or digital image of the licence holder;

an Australian naturalisation or citizenship document;

an original birth certificate or a certified copy, or certified extract, of a birth certificate;

a form of identification or document prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;

any one of the following —

a current signed credit or debit card, a passbook or a statement of account issued by a bank, building society or credit union;

a current Medicare card;

a gas, water, electricity or telephone account issued within 12 months before the report is made;

a notice of rates from a local government (however described) or a notice of water service charges or land valuation;

a pensioner concession card, a Commonwealth seniors health card, an entitlement card issued under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (Commonwealth) or another entitlement card issued by the Commonwealth government or a State or Territory government;

a lease or rental agreement;

a motor vehicle registration notice or certificate;

a renewal notice for a home building or contents, or a motor vehicle, policy of insurance;

a student identity card or a certificate or statement of enrolment from an educational institution;

an electoral enrolment card or other evidence of electoral enrolment;

a form of identification or document prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.

A form of identification or other document is not valid for the purposes of subsection (2A)(b)(iv) to (xi) unless it was issued or entered into, as the case requires, within 2 years before the report is made.

Except as stated in subsection (2A)(a)(iii), a form of identification or other document is not valid for the purposes of subsection (2A) unless it is an original.

The authorised person receiving the report may waive the requirements of subsection (1)(a) if —

the reportable offender permits the offender’s fingerprints to be taken immediately before or after the report is made; or

the authorised person is otherwise satisfied as to the reportable offender’s identity.

The authorised person receiving the report may waive the requirement of subsection (1)(c) if the authorised person is otherwise satisfied as to the person’s identity.

The authorised person receiving a report may copy any document presented to the person for inspection under subsection (1)(a).

For the purposes of a report that is made otherwise than in person, the regulations may specify —

the circumstances in which —

information concerning the identity of the reportable offender and the identity of the person making the report; and

a document verifying or supporting details in the report,

the manner in which that information or document must be provided,