South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The
Chief Executive must keep a Victims Register for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The victim of an
offence for which a youth is sentenced to detention or imprisonment or, if the
victim is dead or under an incapacity or in prescribed circumstances, a member
of the victim's immediate family, may apply in writing to the Chief Executive
to have the following information entered in the Victims Register:
(a) the
applicant's name;
(b) the
applicant's contact address and (if supplied) telephone number or the name,
contact address and (if supplied) telephone number of a person nominated by
the applicant to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf;
(c) any
information (including the name of the youth) in the applicant's possession
that may assist the Chief Executive to identify the youth.
(3) The
Chief Executive is entitled to assume the accuracy of information supplied
under subsection (2) without further inquiry.
(4) The
Victims Register must also contain any other information prescribed by the
regulations.
(5) The
Chief Executive must, when requested to do so by the Training
Centre Review Board, provide the Board with information derived from the
Victims Register.
(6) If the
Victims Register includes particulars of a person nominated by a
registered victim to receive information under this Act on his or her behalf,
any information or notification required or authorised by this Act to be given
to the registered victim must, instead, be given to the person so nominated
(and where such information or notification is to be given at the request of
the registered victim, the person so nominated is entitled to make such a
request as if he or she were the registered victim).
(7) A person must not
divulge information derived from the Victims Register, being information
obtained (whether by the person or some other person) in the administration or
enforcement of this Act, except—
(a) as
required or authorised by this Act or any other Act or law; or
(b) as
reasonably required in connection with the administration or enforcement of
this Act or any other prescribed Act; or
(c) for
the purposes of legal proceedings arising out of the administration or
enforcement of this Act; or
(d) with
the consent of the registered victim to whom the information relates.