New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 153A

153A Withdrawal of offender information provided under Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017

(1) This section applies to proceedings for parole before the Parole Authority in which information is used under the authority given by section 71A of the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 .

Note : Section 71A of the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 authorises the use by the State of certain information obtained under that Act in proceedings for parole under this Act, but only with the consent of the provider of the information.

(2) The Parole Authority must allow the State or a prescribed terrorism intelligence authority to withdraw the information from the consideration of the Parole Authority at any time before the proceedings are determined.

(3) Any offender information that is withdrawn from the consideration of the Parole Authority must not be--

(a) used in making submissions for the State in the proceedings, or

(b) taken into consideration by the Parole Authority in determining the proceedings.

(4) In this section--

"offender information" has the same meaning as in Part 5 of the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 .

"prescribed terrorism intelligence authority" has the same meaning as in the Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 .