Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004

A reportable offender must continue to comply with the reporting obligations imposed by this Part for 8 years, if the offender has only ever been found guilty of a single Class 2 offence.

A reportable offender must continue to comply with the reporting obligations imposed by this Part for 15 years, if the offender —

has only ever been found guilty of a single Class 1 offence; or

has only ever been found guilty of 2 Class 2 offences; or

has only ever been found guilty of 2 Class 3 offences; or

is not covered by subsection (3) and has ever been found guilty of more than 1 reportable offence; or

is not covered by subsection (3) and has ever been found guilty of a single reportable offence and 1 or more offences, committed by the offender when they were a child, that would have been reportable offences if —

a juvenile offender reporting order was made in relation to the offences; or

a corresponding juvenile offender reporting order was made in relation to the offences; or

a corresponding juvenile offender non‑registration order was not made in relation to the offences.

A reportable offender must continue to comply with the reporting obligations imposed by this Part for the remainder of the offender’s life, if the offender is a reportable offender in respect of —

a Class 1 offence, and the offender then commits and is found guilty of a Class 1 offence, a Class 2 offence or a Class 3 offence; or

a Class 2 offence or a Class 3 offence, and the offender then commits and is found guilty of a Class 1 offence; or

a Class 2 offence, and the offender then commits and is found guilty of a Class 2 offence or a Class 3 offence and has ever been found guilty of —

3 or more Class 2 offences; or

2 or more Class 3 offences;

a Class 3 offence, and the offender then commits and is found guilty of a Class 2 offence and has ever been found guilty of 3 or more Class 2 offences; or

a Class 3 offence, and the offender then commits and is found guilty of a Class 3 offence.

For the purposes of this section, a person is a reportable offender in respect of a Class 3 offence if the person is sentenced for a Class 3 offence and has previously been found guilty of another Class 3 offence.

For the purposes of this section —

2 or more offences arising from the same incident are to be treated as a single offence; and

2 or more offences arising from the same incident are to be treated as a single Class 1 offence if at least one of those offences is a Class 1 offence; and

2 or more offences arising from the same incident are to be treated as a single Class 3 offence if at least one of those offences is a Class 3 offence.