Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES (CHILD SEX OFFENDERS) ACT 2005 - SECT 8

    (1)     A person is a registrable offender if the person—

        (a)     is sentenced by a court for a registrable offence; or

        (b)     is the subject of a child sex offender registration order; or

        (c)     is a prescribed corresponding offender.

Note 1     Sentence is broadly defined for this Act (see dict, def sentence ).

Note 2     This Act applies to people sentenced by a court of a foreign jurisdiction for certain offences against the law of that jurisdiction (see dict, def  court and s 10, def registrable offence ).

Note 3     This Act applies to certain people who are registrable offenders for corresponding laws of foreign jurisdictions, even though they are not registrable offenders under this Act (see div 3.2.3 (People required to report under corresponding law)).

    (2)     A person is also a registrable offender if—

        (a)     the person has been sentenced by a court for a registrable offence before the commencement of this Act; and

        (b)     the person is—

              (i)     a prescribed corresponding offender; or

              (ii)     a person who, because of a sentence for a registrable offence, was under the supervision of a supervising authority immediately before the commencement of this Act.

    (3)     This section is subject to the following sections:

              •     section 9 ( Registrable offender —exceptions)

              •     section 13 (Effect of quashing of finding of guilt etc).