Acts and Regulations

V-2.1 - Victims Services Act

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Disclosure
7.5At the request in writing of a victim of crime, the Minister shall disclose to the victim of crime the following information if, in the Minister’s opinion, it is reasonable and practicable to do so and the interest of the victim of crime in such disclosure clearly outweighs any invasion of the accused’s or offender’s privacy that could result from the disclosure:
(a) with respect to an accused:
(i) the name of the accused;
(ii) the date of any hearing held by the Review Board established or designated in New Brunswick under subsection 672.38(1) of the Criminal Code (Canada);
(iii) the date of any disposition hearing held by the court under section 672.45 of the Criminal Code (Canada);
(iv) any disposition of the court or Review Board under section 672.54 of the Criminal Code (Canada);
(v) the location of the psychiatric facility in which the accused is detained; and
(vi) the death of an accused who is detained in a psychiatric facility; and
(b) with respect to an offender:
(i) the name of the offender;
(ii) the date of expiration of the sentence of imprisonment that is served in a correctional institution or the date of expiration of the custodial portion of a custody and supervision order that is served in a place of secure custody;
(iii) the escape of the offender from a correctional institution or a place of secure custody, or the offender’s otherwise being unlawfully at large, and his or her recapture;
(iv) the granting of a temporary absence from a correctional institution without escort or the authorization of a reintegration leave from a place of secure custody without escort; and
(v) the death of the offender who is detained in a correctional institution or a place of secure custody.
2005, c.19, s.8