The Secretary may issue a custodial interstate community permit to a prisoner for leave to travel to a participating State—
(a) to visit a person with whom the prisoner has had a long standing personal relationship if that person is seriously ill or in acute personal need; or
(b) to attend the funeral of a person with whom the prisoner had a long standing personal relationship; or
S. 82(c) amended by No. 38/2003 s. 6.
(c) for any other compassionate purpose (including, in the case of an Aboriginal prisoner, to enable the prisoner to be present at an occasion of special significance to the prisoner's immediate or extended family).
New s. 83 inserted by No. 94/1994 s. 22.