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COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 85F

85F .         Commissioner may publish personal details of certain reportable offenders

        (1)         In this section —

        personal details , in relation to a reportable offender, means the information listed in section 26(1) and —

            (a)         includes a photograph or digital image of the offender; but

            (b)         does not include any details that the offender reports under section 26(1)(e) or any other details that would identify a child.

        (2)         The Commissioner may publish any or all of the personal details of a reportable offender, other than a reportable offender who is a child, if —

            (a)         the Commissioner is satisfied that the reportable offender —

                  (i)         has failed to comply with any of his or her reporting obligations; or

                  (ii)         in purported compliance with Part 3, has provided information that is false or misleading in a material particular;

                and

            (b)         the reportable offender’s whereabouts are not known to the Commissioner.

        (3)         The Commissioner may at any time —

            (a)         remove any or all of the personal details of a reportable offender from the website on which they are published under subsection (2); or

            (b)         again publish under subsection (2) any or all of the personal details of the reportable offender after their removal under paragraph (a).

        (4)         If —

            (a)         the Commissioner has published any personal details of a reportable offender under subsection (2); and

            (b)         the reportable offender subsequently reports his or her whereabouts to the Commissioner under Part 3,

                the Commissioner must, as soon as is practicable after receiving the report, remove those personal details from the website on which they are published.

        [Section 85F inserted: No. 1 of 2012 s. 5.]



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