New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT CONDUCT COMMISSION ACT 2016 - SECT 97R

97R Arrangements for protection

(1) If it appears to a primary agency that, because a person is a protected person, the safety of the person or another person may be prejudiced, or the person or another person may be subject to intimidation or harassment, the primary agency may make arrangements--

(a) to protect the safety of the person concerned, or

(b) to protect the person concerned from intimidation or harassment.

(2) The arrangements may include--

(a) a direction to the Commissioner of Police or to a public authority or public official prescribed by the regulations--

(i) to provide protection referred to in subsection (1), or

(ii) to provide personnel or facilities to assist in providing the protection, or

(iii) to otherwise assist in providing the protection, or

(b) orders applying to a specified person for the purposes of protecting the safety of another person or protecting another person from intimidation or harassment.

(3) A person or body to whom a direction is given under subsection (2)(a) must comply with the direction as far as is reasonably practicable.

(4) A person who contravenes an order applying to the person under subsection (2)(b) without reasonable excuse is guilty of an indictable offence.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.

(5) This section does not affect the Witness Protection Act 1995 .

(6) In this section, a reference to a protected person includes a reference to a person who--

(a) has appeared, is appearing or is to appear before a primary agency to give evidence or to produce a document or other thing, or

(b) has produced or proposes to produce a document or other thing to a primary agency under this Act, or

(c) has assisted, is assisting or is to assist a primary agency in some other way.