Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 54

54 Initial notice to be given to reportable offender

(1) A reportable offender must be given written notice of—

(a) the offender’s reporting obligations; and

(b) the consequences that may arise if the offender fails to comply with those obligations.

(2) A reportable offender must be given the notice as soon as practicable after any of the following events happen—

(a) the offender is—

(i) sentenced for a reportable offence; or

(ii) made subject to an offender reporting order or offender prohibition order;

(b) the offender is released from government detention (whether in government detention for a reportable offence or otherwise);

(c) the offender enters Queensland, if the offender has not previously been given notice of the offender’s reporting obligations in Queensland;

(d) the offender becomes a corresponding reportable offender, if the person is in Queensland at that time.

(3) The notice must be given by the entity specified in, or determined under, a regulation.

(4) However, an entity is not required to give the notice if—

(a) it has been given by another entity; or

(b) the police commissioner has given the reportable offender a reporting obligations notice.

(5) A regulation under subsection (3) must not specify a court, or an officer of the court, to be an entity except when the court has made an offender reporting order.

(6) Despite anything to the contrary in this division, a notice given under this section is not required to specify the reportable offender’s reporting period if, as required by a regulation, a notice containing that information is given to the reportable offender when reporting the offender’s personal details to the police commissioner.