New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT FORENSIC PROVISIONS ACT 2020 - SECT 156

156 Victims Register

(1) There is to be a Victims Register.

(2) The following matters are to be included in the Victims Register--

(a) the names of victims of forensic patients who have requested that they be given notice of the review by the Tribunal of those patients,

(b) any other matter prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The Victims Register may only include the name of a victim of a forensic patient if--

(a) there is a special verdict of act proven but not criminally responsible for the offence against the victim entered in respect of the forensic patient (whether or not following a special hearing), or

(b) a limiting term has been imposed on the forensic patient following a verdict in a special hearing in respect of the offence against the victim.

(4) The Victims Register is to be kept by the Commissioner of Victims Rights and is to be in the form determined by the Commissioner.

(5) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following matters--

(a) applications to register as a victim,

(b) the verification by the Commissioner of the identity of persons applying to register as victims, and the circumstances under which they became victims,

(c) the use and disclosure of information contained in the Victims Register,

(d) notifications to victims by the Tribunal or the Commissioner,

(e) the operation and administration of the Victims Register.