Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) For the purposes
of the Minister’s consideration of a prisoner’s request, the chief
executive officer 2 may (or, if the Minister so requests, shall) supply
to the Minister such medical, psychiatric or psychological reports or
assessments in respect of the prisoner as are or may be made available to him.
(2) There shall be
included in any report or assessment in respect of a prisoner furnished or
caused to be furnished for the information of the Minister under this
regulation any further information available to the person or authority
furnishing the report or assessment, or causing the same to be furnished,
which may be of assistance to the Minister in considering the prisoner’s
request.
(3) Without affecting
the Minister’s powers to form an opinion or exercise a discretion under
Part II of the Act, the Minister, in considering a prisoner’s request,
may have regard to the following matters —
(a)
whether the statutory period during which an appeal against the
prisoner’s conviction or sentence may be made has expired;
(b)
whether any appeal against the prisoner’s conviction or sentence has
been finally dealt with;
(c)
whether, so far as the Minister is aware, every prosecution notice alleging an
offence by the prisoner against the law of Western Australia or the
Commonwealth, or of any other State or of a Territory of Australia, has been
finally dealt with;
(d)
whether a petition for an inquiry, or an inquiry, under the laws of Western
Australia into the prisoner’s conviction or sentence is pending;
(e) the
term of imprisonment remaining to be served by the prisoner compared with the
estimated period for dealing with the request and issuing and executing an
order of transfer.
[Regulation 7 amended in Gazette
11 Dec 1987 p. 4370; 9 May 2008 p. 1843.]