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YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 16C

16C .         Protection of Commissioner of Police reports containing terrorist intelligence information

        (1)         In this section —

        Board means the Supervised Release Review Board, established under s 151, as constituted by the chairperson alone.

        (2)         The Board must take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of a Commissioner of Police report that the Board is satisfied contains terrorist intelligence information, including —

            (a)         receiving the report or hearing argument, or opinion, about the report in private and in the absence of any person other than a person to whose presence the Board consents; and

            (b)         except as provided in paragraph (a), prohibiting the publication of, or a reference to, the report; and

            (c)         withholding any or all of the reasons for a decision.

        (3)         Despite subsection (2), the Board may give the report to —

            (a)         the Attorney General; or

            (b)         a court; or

            (c)         a person to whom the Board authorises disclosure.

        (4)         Before giving a report under subsection (3)(b) or (c), the Board must, in writing, notify the Commissioner of Police of the Board’s intention to give the report.

        [Section 16C inserted: No. 14 of 2022 s. 31.]



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