Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The director-general must maintain a register of victims of young offenders.
(2) The director-general must enter in the register information about a victim of a young 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 rights of registered victims under section 216A to information about young offenders who are sentenced.
(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.