Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The director-general must maintain a register of victims of offenders.
(2) The director-general must enter in the register information about a victim of an offender that the victim, or someone acting for the victim, asks the director-general to enter in the register.
(3) As soon as practicable after entering the victim's information in the register, the director-general must give the victim information, orally or in writing, about the following:
(a) the role of the board;
(b) the rights of registered victims under section 216 to information about offenders who are sentenced;
(c) the role of victims under chapter 7 (Parole) and part 13.1 (Release on licence) in relation to the release of an offender from imprisonment under a parole order or licence.
(4) If the victim is a child under 15 years old, the director-general may give the information to a person who has parental responsibility for the victim under the Children and Young People Act 2008
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(5) Subsection (4) does not limit the cases in which the director-general may give information to a person acting for a victim.
(6) In this section:
"offender" does not include a young offender.