New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 11

11 Cessation of protection and assistance

(1) Protection and assistance provided under the witness protection program to a participant must be terminated by the Commissioner of Police if the participant requests in writing that it be terminated.

(2) Protection and assistance provided under the witness protection program may be terminated by the Commissioner of Police if--

(a) the participant deliberately breaches a term of the memorandum of understanding or a requirement or undertaking relating to the witness protection program, or

(b) the participant's conduct or threatened conduct is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, likely to threaten the security or compromise the integrity of the witness protection program, or

(c) the circumstances that gave rise to the need for protection and assistance for the participant cease to exist, or

(d) the Commissioner is satisfied--

(i) the participant has been sentenced to full-time detention after the participant's inclusion in the witness protection program, and

(ii) the sentence limits the Commissioner's ability to provide adequate protection to the participant,

and the Commissioner is of the opinion that, in the circumstances of the case, the protection and assistance should be terminated.

(3) In this section--

"full-time detention" has the same meaning as in the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 .