CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 205 Local leave permits

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 205

    (1)     The director-general may give a full-time detainee a written permit (a  local leave permit ) to be absent from a correctional centre for any purpose the director-general considers appropriate.

Examples of purposes

1     to attend a health or rehabilitation service

2     to take part in work or work-related activities

3     for compassionate reasons

Note 1     If a form is approved under s 228 for this provision, the form must be used.

Note 2     Power given under an Act to make a statutory instrument (including a direction) includes power to amend or revoke the instrument (see Legislation Act

, s 46 (1)).

    (2)     The permit must include the following:

        (a)     the purpose for which the leave is granted;

        (b)     the period, not longer than 7 days, for which leave is granted.

    (3)     Despite subsection (2) (b), if the permit is granted for the purpose of receiving long-term medical treatment or palliative care and on the advice of a doctor appointed under section 21, the permit must include the period for which leave is granted, being not longer than 3 months.

    (4)     The permit is subject to the following conditions:

        (a)     any condition prescribed by regulation;

        (b)     any other condition, consistent with the conditions (if any) prescribed by regulation, that—

              (i)     the director-general believes, on reasonable grounds, is necessary and reasonable; and

              (ii)     is stated in the permit.

Example of condition stated in permit

a condition prohibiting association with a particular person or being near a particular place

    (5)     The director-general may cancel a detainee's local leave permit if—

        (a)     the detainee breaches a condition of the permit; or

        (b)     the leave is no longer needed for the purpose for which the permit was granted.