South Australian Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (PAROLE) AMENDMENT ACT 2005 (NO 46 OF 2005) - SECT 13

13—Amendment of section 68—Conditions of release on parole

        (1)         Section 68—after subsection (1a) insert:

        (1b)         The paramount consideration of the Board when fixing or recommending conditions to which the release of a prisoner on parole will be subject must be the safety of the community.

        (2)         Section 68(2)—delete "In fixing or recommending conditions to which the release of a prisoner on parole will be subject, the Board must have regard to the following matters" and substitute:

The Board must also take the following matters into consideration when fixing or recommending conditions to which the release of a prisoner on parole will be subject

        (3)         Section 68(2)—after paragraph (c) insert:

            (ca)         if, in relation to an offence for which the prisoner was imprisoned, there is a registered victim—the impact that the release of the prisoner on parole is likely to have on the registered victim and the registered victim's family; and

        (4)         Section 68(2)(f)—delete paragraph (f) and substitute:

            (f)         any reports tendered to the Board—

                  (i)         on the social background, or the medical, psychological or psychiatric condition, of the prisoner;

                  (ii)         from community corrections officers or other officers or employees of the Department; and