New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 242

242 Monitoring

(1) A person (in this section referred to as the
"monitor" ) is to be employed in the Public Service under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 for the purposes of this section in respect of each managed correctional centre.

(2) The monitor is to be appointed for a term of not more than 2 years, but is eligible for re-appointment.

(3) The monitor is responsible to the Commissioner for the assessment and review of the management of the correctional centre concerned by the management company or submanagement company concerned.

(4) A monitor must make an annual report in writing to the Commissioner of his or her findings regarding--

(a) the management of a correctional centre, and

(b) any activity undertaken in accordance with a management or submanagement agreement that affects the correctional centre,

including any transportation of offenders to or from the correctional centre.

(6) The report is to form part of the next annual report of the Department of Justice prepared for the purposes of the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985 .

(7) The monitor has such other functions as may be specified in the regulations and such additional functions as may be specified by the Commissioner from time to time.

(8) The monitor is to have free and unfettered access at all times to all parts of the correctional centre, to all correctional centre records, to all offenders held in custody in the correctional centre and to all persons employed at the correctional centre.