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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending - Inspections and complaints into alleged breaches of rights

79: Inspectors' access to persons and documents

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"Inspectors can enter homes and see documents to check on people being supervised."

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When an inspector visits a house to check on someone who is being supervised, you must let them into every part of the house. The inspector must also be able to talk to every person in the house, even if they are not the person being supervised. The person in charge of the house must show the inspector all the records about the person being supervised, including their court order and management plan. The person in charge must also show the inspector any communications or items that they have not given to the person being supervised, as allowed by section 45 or 48(4).

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Inspections and complaints into alleged breaches of rights

79Inspectors' access to persons and documents

  1. An inspector who visits a residence for the purposes of this Act must be given access to every part of the residence and to every person in it, whether or not that person is a resident under this Act.

  2. The manager must present to the inspector—

  3. every record relating to a resident, including the resident's court order and management plan; and
    1. every communication or item withheld by the manager under section 45 or 48(4).

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