New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 279A

279A Interested persons may be recorded in Victims Register

(1) The Commissioner may, on the application of a person, record the person in the Victims Register as an interested person in relation to an offender if satisfied the person's life or safety is reasonably expected to be endangered because of a connection between the person and the offender.

(2) For, and without limiting, subsection (1), there is a connection between a person and an offender if one or more of the following applies--

(a) the offender has a history of mental harm or physical violence against the person,

(b) the person has or had a domestic relationship with the offender,

(c) the person shares parental responsibility with the offender,

(d) the person was a witness in proceedings against the offender,

(e) the person provided evidence used in proceedings against the offender,

(f) the person is a victim of a previous serious offence or offence of a sexual nature, within the meaning of the Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act 2006 , committed by the offender,

(g) the person is or was a Government employee who provides or provided the offender with an ongoing professional service.

Example--: a treating psychologist

(3) In this section--

"domestic relationship" has the same meaning as in the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 .