COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 85J

COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 85J

85J .         Commissioner may inform child’s parent or guardian whether specified person is a reportable offender

        (1)         A person may apply to the Commissioner to be informed whether or not a person specified in the application (the specified person ), other than a person who is a child, is a reportable offender.

        (2)         The application must be made in a manner approved by the Commissioner.

        (3)         The applicant must provide, in support of the application, any evidence required by the Commissioner to be satisfied that the specified person has regular unsupervised contact with a child of whom the applicant is a parent or guardian.

        (4)         For the purposes of subsection (3), a person does not have regular unsupervised contact with a child unless he or she has unsupervised contact with the child for at least 3 days (whether consecutive or not) in any period of 12 months.

        (5)         If the Commissioner is satisfied that the specified person has regular unsupervised contact with a child of whom the applicant is a parent or guardian, the Commissioner may inform the applicant whether or not the specified person is a reportable offender.

        [Section 85J inserted: No. 1 of 2012 s. 5.]