New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 30G

30G Access to victim impact statements prior to sentencing hearing

(1) The prosecution may provide a copy of a victim impact statement to the offender's Australian legal practitioner (in the case of a represented offender).

(2) An Australian legal practitioner may copy, disseminate or transmit images of a victim impact statement only to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to do so for the purposes of providing the victim impact statement to another Australian legal practitioner for legitimate purposes related to the proceedings.

(3) The Australian legal practitioner must destroy any copies or images at the conclusion of the sentencing proceedings.

(4) The court may provide supervised access to a victim impact statement to an offender who is not represented by an Australian legal practitioner, if resources to facilitate the access are reasonably available.

(5) An offender must not retain, copy, disseminate or transmit images of the victim impact statement.