South Australian Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (PAROLE) AMENDMENT ACT 2005 (NO 46 OF 2005) - SECT 5

5—Insertion of section 5

After section 4 insert:

5—Victims Register

        (1)         The Chief Executive Officer must keep a Victims Register for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         The victim of an offence for which a prisoner is serving a sentence of imprisonment or, if the victim is dead or under an incapacity or in prescribed circumstances, a member of the victim's immediate family, may apply in writing to the Chief Executive Officer to have the following information entered in the Victims Register:

            (a)         the applicant's name, contact address and (if supplied) telephone number;

            (b)         any information (including the name of the prisoner) in the applicant's possession that may assist the Chief Executive Officer to identify the prisoner.

        (3)         The Chief Executive Officer is entitled to assume the accuracy of information supplied under subsection (2) without further inquiry.

        (4)         The Victims Register must also contain any other information prescribed by the regulations.

        (5)         The Chief Executive Officer must, when requested to do so by the Board, provide the Board with information derived from the Victims Register.