Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A probation and parole officer may give to a supervisee any direction the officer believes on reasonable grounds is appropriate.
Note for subsection (1)
Section 21 sets out matters to which a probation and parole officer must have regard when deciding whether to give a direction.
(2) A probation and parole officer may give a direction about a matter even if there is a requirement about the matter in the supervisee's supervision order.
(3) However, a probation and parole officer cannot give a direction:
(a) about a matter stated in the order under section 18(2); or
(b) that is directly inconsistent with a requirement in the order.
(4) Without limiting subsection (1), a probation and parole officer may direct a supervisee to do any or all of the following:
(a) report to a probation and parole officer at specified times and places;
(b) wear an approved monitoring device;
(c) give a sample of the supervisee's voice for use with an approved monitoring device;
(d) allow the placing or installation in, and retrieval from, a specified place of anything necessary for the effective operation of an approved monitoring device;
(e) reside at a specified place;
(f) remain at a specified place for specified periods;
(g) leave a specified place;
(h) participate in specified rehabilitation, care or treatment;
(i) do anything that is reasonably necessary to enable:
(i) the supervisee to be managed and supervised in the way determined by the Commissioner of Correctional Services under section 63 ; or
(ii) the supervisee's compliance with the order to be monitored and enforced.
(5) Without limiting subsection (1), a probation and parole officer may direct a supervisee not to do any or all of the following:
(a) reside at a specified place;
(b) go to a specified place or class of places either at all or during specified periods;
(c) associate or make contact with:
(i) victims of serious sex offences committed by the supervisee; or
(ii) the victims' families; or
(iii) any other specified person or class of persons;
(d) engage in specified employment;
(e) engage in specified conduct;
(f) consume alcohol or a drug (other than as prescribed by a health practitioner).