Young Offenders Amendment Regulations 2007 (WA)

3 April 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1509

JU304*

Young Offenders Act 1994

Young Offenders Amendment Regulations 2007

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Young Offenders Amendment
Regulations 2007.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the
Prisons and Sentencing Legislation Amendment Act 2006 comes
into operation.

3.             The regulations amended

The amendment in these regulations is to the Young Offenders
Regulations 1995*.

[* Reprinted as at 21 November 2003.

For amendments to 1 March 2007 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4.]

4.             Regulation 40B inserted

After regulation 40A the following regulation is inserted in
Part 6A —

“

40B.	Restriction of access to exchange information (s. 16(8)(b))
(1)	A person must not publish information disclosed under section 16(5) of the Act without the written approval of the chief executive officer.
Penalty: a fine of $1 000.
(2)	The chief executive officer must not give approval under subregulation (1) unless the chief executive officer is satisfied that —

(a)	the research for which the information was disclosed was conducted in a methodologically sound manner; and
(b)	the report based on that research is factually correct; and

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(c) the publication does not identify individuals, reveal confidential departmental information or otherwise pose a security risk to the operations of the Department.

”.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.