Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004

A court may make an interim child protection order prohibiting a reportable offender from engaging in conduct specified in the order if it appears to the court that it is necessary to do so —

to prevent an immediate risk to the lives or the sexual safety of one or more children, or children generally; or

if the reportable offender is in government custody — to prevent such a risk from arising on the offender’s release from government custody.

For the purposes of subsection (1), it is not necessary that the court be able to identify a risk to a particular child or particular children or a particular class of children.

Section 90 does not apply to an application for an interim protection order.

An interim protection order may be made by a court whether or not —

the reportable offender is present at the proceedings; or

the reportable offender has been notified of the proceedings.

Despite section 88, a court sentencing a reportable offender for an offence may, after imposing the sentence —

hear an application for an interim protection order; and

dispose of the application in accordance with section 89.

When an interim protection order is made by a court, the court must —

subject to subsection (6A), fix a day, time and place for a further hearing of the application as soon as is practicable after the interim protection order is made; and

issue a summons requiring the reportable offender to attend the court for the further hearing.

If the reportable offender is in government custody when an interim protection order is made, the court must fix the further hearing of the application for a time after the offender’s release from government custody.

The registrar must —

prepare the summons in the prescribed form; and

cause the summons to be served on the reportable offender; and

notify the applicant of the further hearing.

An interim protection order remains in force until the further hearing unless, at the request of the applicant, the application is sooner discontinued.

At the further hearing, section 90 applies to the application.