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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 special care recipients

67G: Victims must be notified of decisions made under section 67

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"The law says victims must be told about decisions made about someone who hurt them."

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If you are a victim, the Director-General must tell you about decisions made under section 67. You will be told if the Director-General has allowed a special care recipient to take leave. You will also be told about any rules the special care recipient must follow while on leave. The Director-General has to tell you these things if you were notified under section 67C or if you made a submission under section 67E about the decision to allow leave under section 67. The Director-General might not tell you about some rules if they think it would interfere with someone else's privacy.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
Requirement to stay in designated facilities or places: Leave for special care recipients

67GVictims must be notified of decisions made under section 67

  1. The Director-General must advise the following persons of the matters specified in subsection (2):

  2. a person notified under section 67C:
    1. a person who makes a submission under section 67E(2) about the decision of whether to authorise leave under section 67(1).

      1. The specified matters are—

      2. whether the Director-General has authorised a special care recipient to be on leave under section 67(1):
        1. if the Director-General has authorised the special care recipient leave, any terms and conditions applying to the special care recipient under section 67(1).

          1. The Director-General may withhold advice of a particular term or condition if, in the Director-General’s opinion, disclosing the term or condition would unduly interfere with the privacy of any other person (other than the special care recipient).

          Notes
          • Section 67G: inserted, on , by section 25 of the Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Act 2021 (2021 No 55).