CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 24A
CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 24A
24A . Power of CEO to obtain copies of certain reports from CEO (Corrective Services)
(1) In this section
—
CEO (Corrective Services) means the chief
executive officer of the department of the Public Service principally
assisting in the administration of the Sentence Administration Act 2003 Part
8;
prescribed report means any of the following
—
(a) a
written pre-sentence report, or a record of an oral pre-sentence report, made
under the Sentencing Act 1995 Part 3 Division 3;
(b) a
report prepared for the purposes of the Sentence Administration Act 2003
section 11A, 17 or 51;
(c) a
report prepared for the purposes of the Young Offenders Act 1994 section 47,
48(1) or 159;
(d) a
report —
(i)
made under, or prepared for the purposes of, the Bail
Act 1982 , the former Dangerous Sexual Offenders Act 2006 , the
High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 , the Sentence Administration Act 2003 ,
the Sentencing Act 1995 , the Prisons Act 1981 or the Young Offenders Act 1994
; and
(ii)
of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes
of this definition.
(2) The CEO may
request the CEO (Corrective Services) to give to the CEO a copy of a
prescribed report if, in the opinion of the CEO, the report is, or is likely
to be, relevant to the wellbeing of a child or a class or group of children.
(3) The CEO
(Corrective Services) must comply with a request under subsection (2).
(4) Subsection (3)
applies despite any enactment that prohibits or restricts disclosure of the
report or information in it.
(5) This section does
not limit the operation of section 23.
[Section 24A inserted: No. 23 of 2015 s. 29;
amended: No. 29 of 2020 s. 121; No. 18 of 2021 s. 16.]