Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 - SECT 7A

Secretary may direct offender to attend for examination

7A. Secretary may direct offender to attend for examination



(1) For the purposes of section 7, the Secretary may, by written notice served
on an offender, direct the offender to attend a specified medical expert at a
place and on a date and time specified in the direction for a personal
examination.

(2) The Secretary may, by written notice served on an offender, vary or revoke
a direction given to the offender under this section.

(3) An offender must not fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with-

   (a)  a direction given to the offender under subsection (1); or

   (b)  that direction as varied under subsection (2).

Penalty: Level 7 imprisonment (2 years maximum).

(4) Despite section 7(1), a medical expert may still make an assessment report
if the offender does not comply with a direction given under this section.

(5) Nothing in this section empowers the giving of a direction that would
require an offender to submit to a physical examination or in any way actively
to cooperate in the carrying out of a personal examination.