Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 - SECT 8

What are class 3 and class 4 offences?

8. What are class 3 and class 4 offences?



(1) A Class 3 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 3 committed against a
person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart
from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this
section.



(2) A Class 4 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 4 committed against a
person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart
from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this
section.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person is a serious sexual offender if
he or she has at any time (whether before, on or after 1 October 2004) been
sentenced by a court for 2 or more offences listed in a Schedule to this Act
whether-

   (a)  in the one trial or hearing; or

   (b)  in different trials or hearings held at different times; or

   (c)  in separate trials of different counts in the one presentment.

Note The term serious sexual offender is also defined in section 6B of the
Sentencing Act 1991 for the purposes of Part 2A of that Act. However, the term
is differently defined in that Act.