New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDERS REGISTRATION) REGULATION 2009 - REG 9

9 Exercise of other functions by Commissioner of Police

(1) For the purposes of section 22 (3) of the Act, the functions of the Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney General under section 5 of the Act are to be exercised by the Commissioner of Police.

(2) Subject to section 5 (1) of the Act, the notification of a registrable person by the Commissioner of Police may be done when the person first attends a police station for the purpose of complying with his or her reporting obligations.

(3) This clause does not apply if:

(a) the Commissioner of Police notifies the Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney General that a registrable person may not have been given a statutory notice by the sentencing court, or

(b) the Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney General is of the opinion that a registrable person:

(i) is a child, or has a special need, and

(ii) is incapable of understanding a statutory notice given by a sentencing court.