Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 - SECT 55

Failure to comply with procedural requirements does not affect registrable offender's obligations

55. Failure to comply with procedural requirements does not affect registrable
offender's obligations

A failure by any person other than a registrable offender to comply with any
procedural requirement imposed on the person by this Part or the regulations
does not, of itself, affect a registrable offender's reporting obligations.
Note This section aims to prevent a registrable offender who was not given
notice of a reporting obligation by an official as required by this Part from
arguing that the obligation does not apply to him or her as a result of that
failure if there is evidence that the registrable offender was aware of the
obligation through some other means. (If there is no such evidence then the
registrable offender would have a defence to the charge under section 46(3) on
the basis that he or she was not aware of the obligation.)







Division 9-Modified reporting procedures for protected witnesses