Victorian Numbered Acts

HUMAN SOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 8 OF 2023) - SECT 40

    (1)     A police officer may apply to the Chief Commissioner for emergency registration of a person as a human source if satisfied that—

        (a)     there is a serious and imminent threat to—

              (i)     national security; or

              (ii)     the community; or

              (iii)     the life and welfare of any person; and

        (b)     the information or assistance that the person is expected to provide if registered as a human source cannot be obtained through any other reasonable means.

    (1A)     A police officer must not apply to the Chief Commissioner for emergency registration of a person as a human source a person who is reasonably expected to have access to information that is subject to client legal privilege or information in respect of which there is an exception to client legal privilege, for the purpose of obtaining, or obtaining and disseminating, information of that kind.

    (2)     An emergency registration application may be made orally or in writing, by any means of communication.

    (3)     If the emergency registration application is not made in writing, the applicant police officer must record the application in writing as soon as reasonably practicable after the application is made.