New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 194

194 Security of certain information

(1) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with a copy of a report or another document (or any part of the report or document) if its provision to the person may, in the opinion of a judicial member--

(a) adversely affect the security, discipline or good order of a correctional centre, or

(b) endanger the person or any other person, or

(c) jeopardise the conduct of any lawful investigation, or

(d) prejudice the public interest, or

(e) adversely affect the supervision of any offender who has been released on parole, or

(f) disclose the contents of any offender's medical, psychiatric or psychological report.

(1A) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to be provided with information about the content of a report or other document, a copy of which is not (by operation of subsection (1)) required to be provided to a person, if, in the opinion of a judicial member--

(a) not providing the information to the person is necessary in the public interest, and

(b) that public interest outweighs any right to procedural fairness that may be denied by not providing the information.

(2) Subsection (1) does not permit the Minister to be denied access to any document held by the Parole Authority.