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SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 8

What are Class 3 and Class 4 offences?

    (1)     A Class 3 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 3 committed against a person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this section.

    (2)     A Class 4 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 4 committed against a person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this section.

    (3)     For the purposes of this section a person is a serious sexual offender if he or she has at any time (whether before, on or after 1 October 2004) been sentenced by a court for 2 or more offences listed in a Schedule to this Act whether—

        (a)     in the one trial or hearing; or

        (b)     in different trials or hearings held at different times; or

S. 8(3)(c) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 112.2).

        (c)     in separate trials of different charges in the one indictment.

Note

The term serious sexual offender is also defined in section 6B of the Sentencing Act 1991 for the purposes of Part 2A of that Act. However, the term is differently defined in that Act.

S. 9 substituted by No. 34/2005 s. 8.



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