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DRUG COURT ACT 2000 - SECT 39C

39C Protection of personal information about offenders

(1) This section applies if a personal information document about an offender is given to a drug court.

(2) The clerk of the court of a drug court may give a copy of a personal information document to a person, other than the offender to whom the document relates, only if--

(a) the person applies to the drug court for a copy of the document; and
(b) the court is satisfied the person has a sufficient interest in the document; and
(c) the court orders the person is to be given a copy of the document.

(3) A regulation may provide for the storage of personal information documents to ensure the confidentiality of information in the document.

Example for subsection (3)--
A regulation may provide that a medical report about an offender, kept in the offender's file, is to be stored in a sealed envelope.

(4) This section applies despite any other Act, including the Justices Act 1886, section 154.

(5) In this section--

personal information document means a document that is prescribed, under a regulation, to be a document to which this section applies.



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