New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE REGULATION 2017 - REG 38

38 Program Officer to assess if unable to convene meeting within reasonable period

(1) Despite clauses 36 and 37, if the Program Officer is not able to convene a meeting of the Aboriginal Community Justice Group for a specified place in accordance with clause 36--

(a) after making all reasonable efforts in the circumstances to do so, and

(b) within a time that the Program Officer considers is a reasonable time after being notified of a suitability assessment order in respect of an offender (taking into account the time by which the finding must be reported under clause 37 (2)),

the Program Officer instead is to assess the suitability of the offender to participate in the program.

(2) In making an assessment under subclause (1), the Program Officer is to have regard to the matters set out in clause 37 (1) in relation to the offender.

(3) The Program Officer is to report his or her finding on an assessment made under subclause (1) to the participating court that made the suitability assessment order within 21 days (or any further period that the court may allow) after being notified of the order.