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Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Procedures for certain hearings

43A: Consultation and disclosure necessary to provide reports

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"Talking to others to get information for a report"

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When you are writing a report about someone, you might need to talk to other people to get the right information. You can talk to anyone who might know something that will help you write the report, like a victim. You are looking for information that is relevant to what you are writing about. You can tell the person you are talking to why you are writing the report and what it is for, so they know what you need to know. This helps you get the information you need to write a good report, as mentioned in section 43 and according to the definition in the Victims' Rights Act 2002.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Procedures for certain hearings

43AConsultation and disclosure necessary to provide reports

  1. To avoid doubt, if a person providing a report referred to in section 43 considers that it is or may be necessary to do so in order to provide the report, he or she—

  2. may consult with any other person (for example, with any victim (as defined in section 4 of the Victims' Rights Act 2002)) who is or may be able to provide information relevant to the matters that the report must address (relevant information); and
    1. may, so far as it is or may be necessary to do so in order to ascertain from the other person relevant information, disclose to the other person information—
      1. about why the report must be provided; and
        1. about the nature and purpose of the report.

        Notes
        • Section 43A: inserted, on , by section 53 of the Victims' Rights Act 2002 (2002 No 39).