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CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 3
Purposes of this Act
3 Purposes of this Act
(1) Parliament recognises that any risk to the lives or sexual safety of 1 or
more children, or of children generally, is unacceptable.
(1A) The purposes
of this Act are— (a) to provide for the protection of the lives of children
and their sexual safety; and
(b) to require particular offenders who commit
sexual, or particular other serious, offences against children to keep police
informed of the offender’s whereabouts and other personal details for a
period of time after the offender’s release into the community— (i) to
reduce the likelihood that the offender will re-offend; and
(ii) to
facilitate the investigation and prosecution of any future offences that the
offender may commit.
(2) In outline, this Act— (a) provides for the
establishment of a child protection register; and
(b) requires offenders who
are sentenced for reportable offences to report specified personal details for
inclusion in the register; and
(c) requires those reportable offenders to
keep those details up to date, to report those details periodically and to
also report particular travel plans; and
(d) imposes those reporting
obligations for a period of between 2 1 / 2 years and life, depending on the
number, severity and timing of the offences committed, and the age of the
reportable offender at the time an offence was committed; and
(e) allows for
the recognition of the period of reporting obligations imposed under laws of
foreign jurisdictions; and
(f) provides for the making of orders against
particular offenders who commit sexual, or particular other serious, offences
against children to— (i) prohibit the offenders from engaging in conduct
posing a risk to the safety or wellbeing of 1 or more children, or of children
generally; or
(ii) require the offenders to do particular things to reduce
the risk to the safety or wellbeing of 1 or more children, or of children
generally.
(3) Subsection (2) is intended only as a guide to readers about
the general scheme and effect of this Act.
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