(1) The prosecution may provide a copy of a victim impact statement to the
offender's Australian legal practitioner (in the case of a represented
offender).
(2) An Australian legal practitioner may copy, disseminate or
transmit images of a victim impact statement only to the extent that it is
reasonably necessary to do so for the purposes of providing the
victim impact statement to another Australian legal practitioner for
legitimate purposes related to the proceedings.
(3) The Australian legal
practitioner must destroy any copies or images at the conclusion of the
sentencing proceedings.
(4) The court may provide supervised access to a
victim impact statement to an offender who is not represented by an Australian
legal practitioner, if resources to facilitate the access are reasonably
available.
