Victorian Numbered Acts

SERIOUS OFFENDERS ACT 2018 (NO. 27 OF 2018) - SECT 289

    (1)     The Freedom of Information Act 1982 does not apply to a document of the Authority to the extent to which the document discloses information that relates to—

        (a)     a victim of an offender, including any victim submission made under this Act; or

        (b)     a person in relation to the person being, or having been, an eligible offender or subject to a supervision order, an interim supervision order, a detention order, an interim detention order or an emergency detention order; or

        (c)     a proceeding under this Act that is or was before a court; or

        (d)     a decision of the Authority; or

        (e)     the decision-making processes of the Authority in relation to a particular matter; or

        (f)     a supervision order, an interim supervision order, a detention order, an interim detention order or an emergency detention order in respect of an offender and, in the case of a supervision order or an interim supervision order, any condition to which the order is subject; or

        (g)     any directions or instructions given under this Act to an offender; or

        (h)     the location, operation or administration of a residential facility or the management of offenders at a residential facility; or

              (i)     the location, operation or administration
of a residential treatment facility or the management of offenders at a residential treatment facility; or

        (j)     the management under the Corrections Act 1986 of an offender subject to a detention order, an interim detention order or   an emergency detention order; or

        (k)     the management of an offender subject to a supervision order or an interim supervision order; or

        (l)     any other information prohibited from disclosure under this Part, unless that information is permitted to be disclosed by a publication order made by a court under section 278.

    (2)     Nothing in this section limits or affects the operation of Part IV of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 in relation to documents of the Authority to which that Act applies.

    (3)     In this section—

"document" has the same meaning as in the Freedom of Information Act 1982 ;

"document of the Authority" has the same meaning as document of an agency or document of the agency in the Freedom of Information Act 1982 .

Part 20—Post Sentence Authority

Division 1—Continuation of Authority