Western Australian Consolidated Acts

DANGEROUS SEXUAL OFFENDERS ACT 2006 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used in this Act

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        chief executive officer means the chief executive officer of the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister to administer the provision in which the term chief executive officer is used;

        commit a serious sexual offence includes to do an act or make an omission outside this State or outside Australia that, if it were done or made in this State, would constitute a serious sexual offence;

        community has a meaning affected by subsection (2);

        community corrections officer has the meaning given to that term in the Sentence Administration Act 2003 section 4(2);

        continuing detention order means a Division 2 continuing detention order or a Division 4 continuing detention order;

        criminal record means the criminal record kept by the Commissioner of Police;

        Division 2 continuing detention order means an order under section 17(1)(a);

        Division 2 order means —

            (a)         Division 2 continuing detention order; or

            (b)         a supervision order under section 17(1)(b);

        Division 4 continuing detention order means an order under section 23(b);

        DPP means the holder of the office of Director of Public Prosecutions under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1991 ;

        offender has the meaning given to that term in section 8(1);

        preliminary hearing means a preliminary hearing referred to in section 11(1);

        psychiatrist has the meaning given to that term in the Mental Health Act 1996 section 3;

        serious danger to the community has the meaning given to that term in section 7;

        serious sexual offence has the meaning given to that term in the Evidence Act 1906 section 106A;

        supervision order means an order under section 17(1)(b) or 33(2)(b);

        under sentence of imprisonment has a meaning that is consistent with the Sentence Administration Act 2003 section 66.

        (2)         A reference in this Act to the community includes any community and is not limited to the community of Western Australia or Australia.

        [Section 3 amended by No. 3 of 2011 s. 4.]