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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - Requirement to stay in designated facilities or places - Leave for care recipients no longer subject to criminal justice system

65E: Information about victims not to be disclosed

You could also call this:

"Keep victims' personal details private"

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If you are looking at information about care recipients who are no longer part of the criminal justice system, you need to know that some details are private. This rule applies to what is said in sections 65A to 65D. You cannot tell a care recipient where a victim of theirs lives or how to contact them. This helps keep victims safe and private.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
Requirement to stay in designated facilities or places: Leave for care recipients no longer subject to criminal justice system

65EInformation about victims not to be disclosed

  1. This section applies to sections 65A to 65D.

  2. No person may, directly or indirectly, disclose to the care recipient the current address or contact details of any victim of the care recipient.

Notes
  • Section 65E: inserted, on , by section 23 of the Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Act 2021 (2021 No 55).