Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The purpose of this Act is to require particular offenders who commit sexual, or particular other serious, offences against children to keep police informed of their whereabouts and other personal details for a period of time after their release into the community—
(a) to reduce the likelihood that they will re-offend; and
(b) to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of any future offences that they may commit.
(2) In outline, this Act—
(a) provides for the establishment of a child protection register; and
(b) requires offenders who are sentenced for reportable offences after the commencement date to report specified personal details for inclusion in the register, and extends this requirement to particular offenders sentenced for reportable offences before that date; and
(c) requires those reportable offenders to keep those details up to date, to report those details annually and to also report particular travel plans; and
(d) imposes those reporting obligations for a period of between 4 years and life, depending on the number, severity and timing of the offences committed, and the age of the reportable offender at the time an offence was committed; and
(e) allows for the recognition of the period of reporting obligations imposed under laws of foreign jurisdictions.
(3) Subsection (2) is intended only as a guide to readers about the general scheme and effect of this Act.