• Specific Year
    Any

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 74H

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 74H

74H—Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make such regulations as are contemplated by, or as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of, this Part.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may—

            (a)         prescribe a person or class of persons to be a prescribed interviewer for the purposes of section 74EB by reference to the office or position held by the person, or the person's training or experience, or any combination of those criteria; and

            (b)         make provision for a person to whom Division 2 or 3 applies to be accompanied during an interview by a person of a prescribed class for the purposes of providing emotional support, or communication assistance or any other assistance, during the interview; and

Note—

Communication assistance may, for example, be provided by means such as a communication partner or by using a device (such as a speak-and-spell communication device).

            (c)         prescribe requirements to be met for the purposes of section 74EB, and the extent to which they are to be met, if section 74EC is to apply to an audio visual record of an interview with a person to whom Division 3 applies; and

            (d)         regulate the playing, broadcasting, publishing, custody, possession, storage, copying, transcription, erasure or destruction of an audio visual record of an interview; and

            (e)         prescribe the records that are to be kept in relation to an audio visual record of an interview; and

            (f)         make provision for access to and the use of an audio visual record for any of the following purposes:

                  (i)         for purposes related to the investigation of an offence;

                  (ii)         for the purposes of, or purposes related to, legal proceedings or proposed legal proceedings;

                  (iii)         for training persons for the purposes of Division 3;

                  (iv)         for the purposes of reviewing, assessing and evaluating the conduct of interviews under this Part;

                  (v)         for any other purpose; and

            (g)         fix fines, not exceeding $5 000, for offences against the regulations.