South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1)
The Chief Executive Officer must keep a Victims Register for the purposes of
this Act.
(2) The victim of an
offence for which a prisoner is serving a sentence of imprisonment or, if the
victim is dead or under an incapacity or in prescribed circumstances, a member
of the victim's immediate family, may apply in writing to
the Chief Executive Officer to have the following information entered in the
Victims Register:
(a) the
applicant's name;
(ab) the
applicant's contact address and (if supplied) phone number or the name,
contact address and (if supplied) phone number of a person nominated by the
applicant to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf;
(b) any
information (including the name of the prisoner) in the applicant's possession
that may assist the Chief Executive Officer to identify the prisoner.
(3)
The Chief Executive Officer is entitled to assume the accuracy of information
supplied under subsection (2) without further inquiry.
(4) The
Victims Register must also contain any other information prescribed by the
regulations.
(5)
The Chief Executive Officer must, when requested to do so by the Board,
provide the Board with information derived from the Victims Register.
(6) If the
Victims Register includes particulars of a person nominated by a
registered victim to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf,
any information or notification required or authorised by this Act to be given
to the registered victim must, instead, be given to the person so nominated
(and where such information or notification is to be given at the request of
the registered victim, the person so nominated is entitled to make such a
request as if he or she were the registered victim).