Victorian Current Acts

SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 66Q

    (1)     The court may include in a prohibition order any conditions that appear to be necessary or desirable in the circumstances.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1), a prohibition order may include conditions—

        (a)     prohibiting the registrable offender associating with or otherwise contacting a specified person or class of person; and

Examples

Persons aged less than 18 years, victims of the registrable offender or the victim's family members.

        (b)     prohibiting the registrable offender being in, or anywhere within a specified distance of, a specified place or class of place; and

        (c)     subject to section 66R, excluding the registrable offender from premises at which the registrable offender generally resides; and

        (d)     prohibiting the registrable offender from engaging in specified behaviour; and

        (e)     prohibiting the registrable offender from engaging in specified community activities; and

        (f)     subject to subsection (3), prohibiting the registrable offender from engaging in specified employment or a specified kind of employment; and

        (g)     prohibiting the registrable offender from consuming alcohol; and

        (h)     prohibiting the registrable offender from using, or unlawfully obtaining, a drug of dependence.

    (3)     In deciding whether to include a condition referred to in subsection (2)(f) in a prohibition order against a registrable offender who is a child, the Children's Court must consider the desirability of allowing the treatment, education, training or employment of the child to continue without interruption or disturbance.

    (4)     For the purposes of this section and section 66R, "employment" means—

        (a)     work carried out under a contract of employment; or

        (b)     work carried out as a self-employed person or as a sub-contractor; or

        (c)     work carried out as a volunteer for an organisation; or

        (d)     practical training undertaken as part of an educational or vocational course; or

        (e)     work carried out as a minister of religion or in any other capacity for the purposes of a religious organisation.

S. 66R inserted by No. 21/2016 s. 8.