(1) The court may make
an order that a person (the past offender ) comply with the reporting
obligations of this Act if the court is satisfied that the past offender poses
a risk to the lives or sexual safety of one or more persons, or persons
generally.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1), it is not necessary that the court be able to identify a
risk to a particular person or particular persons or a particular class of
persons.
(3A) In deciding
whether to make an order under this section in respect of an offence, the
court may take into account the following —
(a) any
evidence given during proceedings for the offence;
(b) any
document or record (including an electronic document or record) served on the
past offender by the prosecution or the Commissioner;
(c) any
statement tendered, or deposition made, or exhibit tendered, at any
proceedings in relation to the offence;
(d) the
period of time since the offence was committed;
(e) the
age of the past offender and the age of any victim of the offence at the time
the offence was committed;
(f) the
difference in age between the past offender and any victim of the offence;
(g) the
seriousness of the past offender’s total criminal record;
(h) any
other matter the court considers relevant.
(3B) The fact that an
offence in respect of which a past offender has been found guilty becomes
spent does not affect the consideration of the offence as part of the past
offender’s total criminal record for the purposes of subsection (3A)(g).
(3) For the purposes
of Part 3 Division 5, a person subject to an order made under this section in
respect of an offence that is a reportable offence is taken to have been found
guilty of, and to have been sentenced for, the offence when the order was
made.
(4) For the purposes
of Part 3 Division 5, a person subject to an order made under this section in
respect of an offence that is not a reportable offence is taken to have been
found guilty of, and to have been sentenced for, a Class 2 offence when the
order was made.
[Section 19 amended: No. 54 of 2012 s. 9.]