CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 242
Monitoring
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 242
Monitoring
242 Monitoring
(1) A person (in this section referred to as the
"monitor" ) is to be employed in the Public Service under the Government
Sector Employment Act 2013 for the purposes of this section in respect of each
managed correctional centre.
(2) The monitor is to be appointed for a term of
not more than 2 years, but is eligible for re-appointment.
(3) The monitor is
responsible to the Commissioner for the assessment and review of the
management of the correctional centre concerned by the management company or
submanagement company concerned.
(4) A monitor must make an annual report in
writing to the Commissioner of his or her findings regarding--
(a) the
management of a correctional centre, and
(b) any activity undertaken in
accordance with a management or submanagement agreement that affects the
correctional centre,
including any transportation of offenders to or from the
correctional centre.
(6) The report is to form part of the next annual report
of the Department of Justice prepared for the purposes of the Annual Reports
(Departments) Act 1985 .
(7) The monitor has such other functions as may be
specified in the regulations and such additional functions as may be specified
by the Commissioner from time to time.
(8) The monitor is to have free and
unfettered access at all times to all parts of the correctional centre, to all
correctional centre records, to all offenders held in custody in the
correctional centre and to all persons employed at the correctional centre.
