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SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 66ZZC

Chief Commissioner of Police may disclose personal information about prohibition orders and registration orders

    (1)     If the Chief Commissioner of Police believes on reasonable grounds that the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of an order made under this Part (other than an order made under section 66ZD or 66ZE), the Chief Commissioner may disclose personal information relating to the order or the registrable offender or corresponding registrable offender against whom the order was made—

        (a)     if the registrable offender or corresponding registrable offender is a child, to a parent of the child; or

        (b)     to a parent or guardian of a named child protected by the order; or

        (c)     subject to subsection (2), to any other person.

    (2)     The Chief Commissioner of Police may only disclose information under subsection (1)(c) if the disclosure is reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the order.

    (3)     If the Chief Commissioner of Police discloses information to a person under this section, the disclosure must—

        (a)     be made in writing; and

        (b)     state that it is an offence for the person to disclose personal information to another person.

    (4)     A person to whom personal information has been disclosed in accordance with this section must not disclose that information to any person.

Penalty:     60 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months or both.

S. 66ZZD inserted by No. 21/2016 s. 8.



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