New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 26

26 Local leave permits

(1) The Commissioner may issue a permit (a "local leave permit") allowing an inmate to be absent from a correctional centre:

(a) on such conditions and for such period as may be specified in the permit, and

(b) for such purpose as the Commissioner considers appropriate.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) (b), the purposes for which a local leave permit may be issued include the following:

(a) enabling an inmate to be interviewed by a police officer, or by an officer of a law enforcement agency, in connection with the commission of an offence in a correctional centre, whether or not the offence was committed or is suspected of having been committed by the inmate,

(b) enabling an inmate to assist in the administration of justice,

(c) enabling an inmate to attend a funeral service or burial of a member of the inmate’s immediate or extended family,

(d) enabling an inmate to be present at an occasion of special significance to the inmate’s immediate or extended family,

(e) enabling an inmate to visit any member of the inmate’s immediate family who is suffering serious illness or disability,

(f) enabling an inmate to apply for work or attend an interview with an employer or prospective employer,

(g) enabling an inmate to attend a place of education or training in connection with any course of education or training,

(h) enabling an inmate to engage in employment specified in the permit,

(i) enabling an inmate to have weekend leave,

(j) enabling an inmate to reside at a transitional centre,

(k) enabling an inmate to attend tuition or perform work in connection with a course of education or training being undertaken by the inmate,

(l) in the case of a female inmate who is the mother of a young child or young children, enabling the inmate to serve her sentence with her child or children in an appropriate environment.

(3) The conditions to which a local leave permit is subject must include such conditions as are required by the regulations to be included in such a permit.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), the Commissioner may, at any time:

(a) vary or omit any condition of a local leave permit, or

(b) substitute or add new conditions to a local leave permit, or

(c) revoke a local leave permit.

(5) For the purposes of this section, "member of the inmate’s immediate family" includes a person with whom the inmate has a de facto relationship (within the meaning of the Property (Relationships) Act 1984 ).