An Act to amend the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 and the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987 with respect to parole for adult and juvenile offenders and re-integration home detention orders for adult offenders; and for other purposes.
This Act is the Parole Legislation Amendment Act 2017.
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
(Repealed)
Insert “under a re-integration home detention order or” before “on parole” in section 8 (1).
Insert before Part 6:
In this Part:
A re-integration home detention order cannot be made for a serious offender or for an offender who is serving a sentence for any of the following offences (an
(a) a domestic violence offence within the meaning of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007,
(b) a child sexual offence within the meaning of section 21A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999,
(c) a serious sex offence or a serious violence offence within the meaning of the Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act 2006,
(d) a terrorism offence within the meaning of Division 3A of Part 6.
Subsection (1) does not prevent:
(a) the carrying out of an assessment of the suitability of an offender (other than a serious offender) for a re-integration home detention order in respect of an offence other than an excluded offence, or
(b) the making of a re-integration home detention order for an offender who has been convicted of an excluded offence (other than a serious offender) if the offender will no longer be serving a sentence for any excluded offence on the commencement of the order.
A community corrections officer who considers that an offender may be suitable for a re-integration home detention order may arrange for the preparation of an assessment report as to the suitability of the offender for home detention for the purposes of re-integration into the community.
If an assessment report states that an offender is a suitable person to be subject to home detention for the purposes of re-integration into the community, a community corrections officer:
(a) may request the Parole Authority to make a re-integration home detention order for the offender, and
(b) must provide the report to the Parole Authority before the Parole Authority considers whether or not to make the order.
If an assessment report does not state that an offender is a suitable person to be subject to home detention for the purposes of…