(1) A person may apply
to the Commissioner to be informed whether or not a person specified in the
application (the specified person ), other than a person who is a child, is a
reportable offender.
(2) The application
must be made in a manner approved by the Commissioner.
(3) The applicant must
provide, in support of the application, any evidence required by the
Commissioner to be satisfied that the specified person has regular
unsupervised contact with a child of whom the applicant is a parent or
guardian.
(4) For the purposes
of subsection (3), a person does not have regular unsupervised contact with a
child unless he or she has unsupervised contact with the child for at least 3
days (whether consecutive or not) in any period of 12 months.
(5) If the
Commissioner is satisfied that the specified person has regular unsupervised
contact with a child of whom the applicant is a parent or guardian, the
Commissioner may inform the applicant whether or not the specified person is a
reportable offender.
[Section 85J inserted: No. 1 of 2012 s. 5.]