Queensland Consolidated Acts

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 43E

43E Order to be given to interested persons

(1) A proper officer of the court that makes, amends or revokes a non-contact order for an offender must immediately—

(a) reduce the order to writing in the approved form; and

(b) give a copy of the order to—

(i) if the prosecutor who appeared before the court when the non-contact order was made was a Crown prosecutor—the director of public prosecutions or someone authorised to accept the order on the director’s behalf; and

(ii) the offender; and

(iii) if the order was amended or revoked on the application of the victim named in the order—the victim; and

(iv) if the order was amended or revoked on the application of any associate named in the order—the associate; and

(v) the chief executive (corrective services); and

(c) give a copy of the order to the commissioner of the police service, or someone authorised to accept the order on the commissioner’s behalf, by fax, email or a similar facility.

(2) Failure to comply with subsection (1) does not invalidate the order.

(3) If the proper officer is not required under subsection (1) to give a copy of the order to the victim or associate, the prosecutor, or someone on the prosecutor’s behalf, must take all reasonable steps to give a copy of the order to the victim or associate.