(1)  The following foreign witness-protection laws are specified for the purposes of section 40(2) of the Act:

(a) Witness Protection Act 1994 of the Commonwealth;

(b) Witness Protection Act 1995 of New South Wales;

(c) Witness Protection Act 2000 of Queensland;

(d) Witness Protection (Northern Territory) Act 2002 of the Northern Territory;

(e) Witness Protection (Western Australia) Act 1996 of Western Australia;

(f) Witness Protection Act 1991 of Victoria;

(g) Witness Protection Act 1996 of the Australian Capital Territory;

(h) Witness Protection Act 1996 of South Australia.

(2)  The corresponding Acts specified in regulation 5 are specified for the purposes of section 40(2) of the Act.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953 .

Notified in the Gazette on 1 March 2006

These regulations are administered in the Department of Police and Public Safety.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations –

(a) prescribe classes of police officers as authorised persons; and

(b) prescribe laws of foreign jurisdictions as corresponding Acts; and

(c) prescribe classes of orders as corresponding offender reporting orders; and

(d) prescribe orders under the Criminal Justice (Mental Impairment) Act 1999 as sentences; and

(e) prescribe authorities as the supervising authorities of classes of reportable offenders; and

(f) specify foreign witness-protection laws and corresponding Acts for the purposes of section 40(2) of the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2005 .