Northern Territory Numbered Regulations

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS (NO 40 OF 2004) - REG 15

(1) This regulation applies in relation to any reportable offender who –

(a) is a child; or

(b) in the opinion of the Commissioner, a supervising authority or a sentencing court has a special need,

and who, in the opinion of the Commissioner, authority or court is incapable of understanding a notice under the Act.

(2) The Commissioner or supervising authority must take measures that are reasonably practicable to assist the reportable offender to understand –

(a) the person's reporting obligations; and

(3) The measures may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a) providing an oral explanation to the reportable offender of those obligations and consequences;

(c) providing the reportable offender with a translation of a notice under the Act in a language with which the reportable offender is familiar;

(d) making available an interpreter to provide the reportable offender with an oral explanation of a notice under the Act in a language with which the reportable offender is familiar;

(e) making available a person (who has experience in communicating with persons who have similar special needs) to communicate those obligations and consequences to the reportable offender in a manner with which the reportable offender is familiar;

(f) providing additional written notice to the reportable offender in a form that can be more readily understood by persons who have similar special needs;

(g) arranging for a support person to be present when a notice under the Act is being given to the reportable offender or when any other measure is being taken to communicate those obligations and consequences to the reportable offender.

(a) taken by the Commissioner as a result of forming the opinion in subregulation (1); or

(b) of which the Commissioner is informed under subregulation (5).

(5) If a supervising authority forms the opinion referred to in subregulation (1), the authority –

(a) must inform the Commissioner of its opinion and of the reasons for its opinion;

(c) must inform the Commissioner as to each occasion on which any such measures are taken and the nature of the measures taken.

(7) The Commissioner and each supervising authority must keep a record of any information received from the court under subregulation (6).