Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 12C

12C Making offender reporting order—forensic order

(1) This section applies if a court makes a forensic order in relation to a person.

(2) The court may also make an offender reporting order against the person if satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, after considering the matters mentioned in section 12D —

(a) the person poses a risk to the lives or the sexual safety of 1 or more children, or of children generally; or

(b) if the forensic order was made in relation to a child abduction offence—

(i) the context in which the offence was committed was not familial; and

(ii) it is appropriate in the circumstances to make the order.

(3) For subsection (2) —

(a) a reference in section 12D to an offence is a reference to the offence in relation to which the forensic order is made; and

(b) a reference in section 12D to the conduct the subject of the order is a reference to the conduct that constitutes that offence.

(4) For subsection (2) (a) , it is not necessary that the court be able to identify a risk to particular children, or a particular class of children.

(5) An offender reporting order made under subsection (2) ends if the forensic order is revoked under the Mental Health Act 2016 , section 441 .