Periodic Detention of Prisoners Act 1981 Periodic Detention of Prisoners Amendment (Review Committee) Regulation 1988 (1998-129) [GG No 52 of 13.3.1998, p 1382] (NSW)

1998 No 129

New South Wales

Periodic Detention of Prisoners

Amendment (Review Committee)

Regulation 1998

under the

Periodic Detention of Prisoners Act 1981

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Periodic Detention of Prisoners Act 1981.

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Minister for Corrective Services

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to enable the Commissioner of Corrective Services to establish a committee to advise the Commissioner on the management of periodic detainees.

This Regulation is made under the Periodic Detention of Prisoners Act 1981, including section 34 (the general regulation making power).

Published in Gazette No 52 of 13 March 1998, page 1382 Page 1

1998 No 129

Clause 1 Periodic Detention of Prisoners Amendment (Review Committee) Regulation 1998

Periodic Detention of Prisoners Amendment

(Review Committee) Regulation 1998

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Periodic Detention of Prisoners
Amendment (Review Committee) Regulation 1998.

2 Amendment of Periodic Detention of Prisoners Regulation 1995

The Periodic Detention of Prisoners Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

1998 No 129

Periodic Detention of Prisoners Amendment (Review Committee) Regulation 1998

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Part 8A

Insert after clause 41:

Part 8A

Periodic Detention Review Committee

41A Periodic Detention Review Committee

(1)

The Commissioner may establish a committee, to be known as the Periodic Detention Review Committee, to advise the Commissioner on such of the following matters as the Commissioner may from time to time direct:

(a)	the categorisation of periodic detainees in accordance with categories established by the Commissioner, for the purpose of the application of different arrangements to different categories of periodic detainees,
(b)	the management of periodic detainees categorised by the commissioner as public interest detainees

(including, whether in the opinion of the Committee the cancellation of any order for periodic detention in respect of a particular public interest detainee is required),

(c) the management of long-term absentees (that is, those periodic detainees who for long periods have not been able to start or complete their order for periodic detention for health, compassionate or other reasons) to ensure that they complete their sentence if they are capable of doing so.

(2)	The Committee is to consist of such number of members as the Commissioner determines.
(3)	The Commissioner is to ensure that the persons appointed as members have expertise or qualifications appropriate to the functions of the Committee.
(4)	The Committee is to function in accordance with procedures determined by the Commissioner.