(1) The chief executive may disclose information about an offender who has been sentenced to a registered victim of the offender if satisfied the disclosure is appropriate in the circumstances.
Examples of disclosures
1 any non-association order or place restriction order that applies to the offender
2 if the offender is subject to periodic detention—the offender's periodic detention period, reporting place and reporting time
3 if the offender is under a good behaviour order—the place where the offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
4 if the offender is serving a sentence of imprisonment by full-time detention:
(a) the correctional centre where the offender is detained
(b) the offender's classification in detention
(c) the transfer of the offender between correctional centres, including NSW correctional centres
(d) the offender's parole eligibility date
(e) any unescorted leave given to the offender under the Corrections Management Act 2005
(f) the death or escape of, or any other exceptional event relating to, the offender
Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).
(2) If the victim is a child under 15 years old, the chief executive may give the information to a person who has parental responsibility for the victim under the Children and Young People Act 1999 , section 18.
Note The Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005 , s 136 (Information exchanges between criminal justice entities) also deals with information about a victim of an offence.
(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the
cases in which the chief executive may give information to a person acting for
a victim.