New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDERS REGISTRATION) ACT 2000 - SECT 14A

14A Length of reporting period

(1) A registrable person must continue to comply with the reporting obligations imposed by this Part for--

(a) 8 years, if the person has only ever been found guilty of a single Class 2 offence, or

(b) 15 years, if the person--

(i) has only ever been found guilty of a single Class 1 offence, or

(ii) has ever been found guilty of more than a single registrable offence but is not covered by paragraph (c), or

(c) the remainder of the person's life, if the person is a registrable person in respect of--

(i) a Class 1 offence and the person subsequently commits and is found guilty of another registrable offence, or

(ii) a Class 2 offence and the person subsequently commits and is found guilty of a Class 1 offence, or

(iii) a Class 2 offence and the person subsequently commits and is found guilty of another Class 2 offence and has ever been found guilty of 3 or more Class 2 offences.

Note : A life-long reporting obligation may be suspended under Division 7.

(2) Subsection (1) (c) does not apply if the registrable person was not given notice of the person's reporting obligations under this Act or a corresponding Act before the person committed the subsequent offence.

(3) A reference in subsection (1) to an offence extends to an offence committed before the commencement of that subsection.

(4) For the purposes of this section--

(a) 2 or more offences arising from the same incident are to be treated as a single offence, and

(b) 2 or more offences arising from the same incident are to be treated as a single Class 1 offence if at least one of those offences is a Class 1 offence.