Victorian Current Acts

SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 4A

For the purposes of this Act, a registrable offender has contact with a child if the offender—

        (a)     resides with the child; or

        (b)     stays overnight at a place of residence where the child resides or is staying overnight; or

        (c)     cares for, or supervises, the child; or

        (d)     provides the offender's contact details to the child or receives the child's contact details from the child; or

S. 4A(e) amended by No. 37/2022 s. 3.

        (e)     engages in any of the following with the child for the purpose of forming or maintaining a personal relationship with the child—

              (i)     any form of actual physical contact;

              (ii)     any form of oral communication (whether face to face, by telephone or by use of the internet);

              (iii)     any form of written communication (whether electronic or otherwise).