Victims Of Crime Rights And Services Regulations 2010 (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

VICTIMS OF CRIME RIGHTS AND SERVICES REGULATIONS 2010

As in force at 15 March 2010

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NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 15 March 2010

VICTIMS OF CRIME RIGHTS AND SERVICES REGULATIONS 2010

Regulations under the Victims of Crime Rights and Services Act 2006

1Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Victims of Crime Rights and Services Regulations 2010.

2Information to be given to CVSU

For section 27(1) of the Act, a registered person must:

• (a)

  within 28 days after a change in the person’s contact details, give the CVSU written notice of the person’s new contact details; and

• (b)

  within 28 days after the occurrence of an event that affects the person’s eligibility to be registered under section 19 of the Act, give the CVSU written notice of the event.

3Confidentiality agreement

For section 27(2) of the Act, a registered person must sign a confidentiality agreement in which the person acknowledges, and agrees to be bound by, the obligations under section 29 of the Act in relation to information received from the CVSU.

4Removal from register

• (1)

  For section 28 of the Act, the Director:

  • (a)

    must remove a registered person from the register if the person requests the Director, in writing, to do so; and

  • (b)

    may remove a registered person from the register if any of the following occur:

    • (i)

      the CVSU is unable to contact the person after making reasonable attempts to do so using the contact details given by the person;

    • (ii)

      the Director forms a belief, on reasonable grounds, that the person has disclosed information in breach of section 29 of the Act;

    • (iii)

      the person ceases to be eligible to be registered under section 19 of the Act;

    • (iv)

      the person dies;

    • (v)

      the relevant offender is transferred to a prison outside the Territory to serve the remainder of his or her term of imprisonment for the relevant offence;

    • (vi)

      the relevant offender is discharged from the sentence for the relevant offence, or the offender is otherwise lawfully and indefinitely released from custody;

    • (vii)

      the conviction of the relevant offender for the relevant offence is overturned;

    • (viii)

      the relevant offender dies.

• (2)

  Within 14 days after removing a person from the register, the Director must give the person written notice of the removal and, if the person was removed under subregulation (1)(b), the reason for the removal.

• (3)

  Subregulation (2) does not apply if the person has died.

ENDNOTES

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  KEY

Key to abbreviations

 

amd = amended od = order

app = appendix om = omitted

bl = by-law pt = Part

ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule

cl = clause rem = remainder

div = Division renum = renumbered

exp = expires/expired rep = repealed

f = forms s = section

Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule

hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision

ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation

lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

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  LIST OF LEGISLATION

Victims of Crime Rights and Services Regulations (SL No. 3, 2010)
Notified	15 March 2010
Commenced	15 March 2010

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  GENERAL AMENDMENTS

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22 of 2018) to: r 1.