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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

67H: Information about victims not to be disclosed

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"Keep a victim's address and contact details secret from a special care recipient."

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If you are dealing with a special care recipient, you must not tell them where a victim lives or how to contact them. This rule applies to certain parts of the law, which are sections 67B to 67G. You cannot give a special care recipient a victim's address or contact details, either directly or indirectly.

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

67HInformation about victims not to be disclosed

  1. This section applies to sections 67B to 67G.

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

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