South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts9—Child sex offender registration order
(1) A court may—
(a) on
sentencing a person for an offence that is not a class 1 or class 2 offence;
or
(b) on
sentencing a person for a class 1 or class 2 offence committed while the
person was a child; or
(c) on
sentencing a person for a single class 2 offence where the sentence imposed
does not include a term of imprisonment and is not a supervised sentence; or
(d) on
making a restraining order against a person under section 99AA of the
Summary Procedure Act 1921 ,
order that the person comply with the reporting obligations of this Act.
(2) The Magistrates
Court may order that a person who has been sentenced for an offence against
the law of a foreign jurisdiction (and who is not otherwise a
registrable offender in respect of that offence) comply with the
reporting obligations of this Act.
Note—
A person who has been sentenced for an offence against the law of a foreign
jurisdiction may be a registrable offender, in the absence of such an order,
because the offence was a class 1 or 2 offence or because the person is a
foreign registrable offender.
(3) The court may only
make an order under this section if, after taking into account any matter that
it considers appropriate, it is satisfied that the person poses a risk to the
sexual safety of any child or children.
(4) For the purposes
of subsection (3), it is not necessary that the court be able to identify
a risk to a particular child or particular children.
(5) The court may only
make an order under this section on the application of—
(a) in
the case of an order to be made by a court that is dealing with a person for
an offence—the prosecution; or
(b) in
any other case—a police officer.
(6) For the purposes
of subsection (1)(c), 2 or more class 2 offences arising from the same
incident will be treated as a single class 2 offence.