New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 193C

193C Parole Authority decisions

(1) The Parole Authority must cause a record of its reasons for the following decisions under Parts 6 and 7 to be kept in the minutes of its meetings--

(a) all decisions that result in the granting or refusing of a re-integration home detention order or parole,

(b) all decisions that result in the revocation of an intensive correction order, re-integration home detention order or parole order,

(c) all decisions that result in the refusal to revoke an intensive correction order following a recommendation referred to in section 164AA,

(d) all decisions that result in the refusal to revoke a parole order--

(i) following a submission made under section 141A (3) or 153 (3), or

(ii) following a recommendation referred to in section 170 (3) or 170B (2),

(e) all decisions that result in a refusal to revoke a re-integration home detention order following a recommendation referred to in section 168E (2),

(f) any other decisions following a submission or recommendation by the Commissioner or the State.

(2) In recording its reasons for a decision under Division 2 of Part 6 that an offender should or should not be released on parole, the Parole Authority must address--

(a) the matters referred to in section 135, and

(b) if the decision relates to a serious offender to whom section 154 applies, the matters referred to in that section, and

(c) such other matters as the Parole Authority is, under this Act or the regulations, required to take into account in making the decision.

(2A) In recording its reasons for a decision relating to re-integration home detention for the purposes of this section, the Parole Authority must address the matters that it is required to consider when making the decision.

(3) Copies of any records made under this section are to be supplied to the Minister, the Commissioner and Community Corrections, as they may request.

(4) Subject to this Act, a decision by the Parole Authority under Part 6 or 7 is final.