(1) On an application
under section 52, the District Court may make an order suspending the
reportable offender’s reporting obligations.
(2) The Court may make
the order only if it is satisfied that the reportable offender does not pose a
risk to the lives or the sexual safety of one or more persons, or persons
generally.
(3) In deciding
whether to make the order, the Court must take into account the following
—
(a) the
seriousness of the reportable offender’s reportable offences and
corresponding reportable offences;
(b) the
period of time since those offences were committed;
(c) the
age of the reportable offender and the age of the victims of those offences at
the time the offences were committed;
(d) the
difference in age between the reportable offender and the victims of those
offences;
(e) the
reportable offender’s present age;
(f) the
seriousness of the reportable offender’s total criminal record;
(g) any
other matter the Court considers relevant.