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CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 (NO 96 OF 2005) - SECT 206

Record of investigation

    (1)     On completing an investigation of a protective intervention report, the protective intervener must, as soon as practicable, make a written record of—

        (a)     details of the investigation; and

        (b)     the results of the investigation.

    (2)     If after completing an investigation of a protective intervention report the protective intervener decides not to make a protection application, a person must not disclose the record of the investigation made under sub-section (1     ) to anyone other than—

        (a)     the child; or

        (b)     the child's parents; or

        (c)     the Secretary; or

        (d)     the Chief Commissioner of Police; or

        (e)     a person in connection with a review by VCAT or a panel appointed under section 332 of decisions relating to the recording of information in the central register; or

        (f)     a person who is, or is a member of a class of persons who are, authorised in writing by the Secretary or the Chief Commissioner of Police to have access to that record or the class of records to which that record belongs.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (3)     Despite anything to the contrary in the Freedom of Information Act 1982 , sub-section (2) does not have the effect of making the record of the investigation an exempt document for the purposes of that Act.



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