Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004

On an application under section 52, the District Court may make an order suspending the reportable offender’s reporting obligations.

The Court may make the order only if it is satisfied that the reportable offender does not pose a risk to the lives or the sexual safety of one or more persons, or persons generally.

In deciding whether to make the order, the Court must take into account the following —

the seriousness of the reportable offender’s reportable offences and corresponding reportable offences;

the period of time since those offences were committed;

the age of the reportable offender and the age of the victims of those offences at the time the offences were committed;

the difference in age between the reportable offender and the victims of those offences;

the reportable offender’s present age;

the seriousness of the reportable offender’s total criminal record;

any other matter the Court considers relevant.