The Government is introducing urgent law change on Wednesday to fix the blunder made in the 2016 law. The government is making an urgent, retrospective law change on Wednesday afternoon to make sure hundreds of sex offenders are put back onto the national register. Samuel Rillstone/RNZ Hundreds of sex offenders are to be put back onto the national register after an urgent law change. It found it did not cover that group of offenders, so police have had to remove "hundreds of individuals" from the Child Sex Offender Register. "The whole purpose of the Act was to establish a Child Sex Offender Register that would reduce sexual reoffending against child victims," she says, "and the risk posed by serious child sex offenders, through monitoring of registered offenders".

Source: Stuff March 17, 2021 01:28 UTC