Subdiv 2General

Subdivision 2—General 37CA—Home detention officers (1) The Minister may appoint such home detention officers for the purposes of this Division and the Sentencing Act 2017 as the Minister thinks fit. (2) The CE must— (a) on the receipt of a copy of a home detention order in respect of a prisoner; or (b) on the release of a prisoner under this Division, assign the prisoner to a home detention officer, and the CE may from time to time re‑assign the prisoner to another home detention officer. (3) A home detention officer to whom a prisoner is assigned— (a) may give reasonable directions to the prisoner— (i) requiring the prisoner to take up, not to take up or not to give up some particular employment; or (ii) requiring the prisoner to attend a particular course of counselling or instruction; and (b) may give the prisoner other directions of a kind authorised by the Minister either generally or in relation to the particular prisoner. (4) Any home detention officer may, at any time— (a) enter or telephone the residence of a prisoner serving a period of home detention; or (b) telephone the prisoner's place of employment or any other place at which the prisoner is permitted or required to attend; or (c) question any person at that residence or place as to the whereabouts of the prisoner, for the purposes of ascertaining whether or not the prisoner is complying with the conditions to which the prisoner's release is subject. (5) A person must not— (a) hinder a home detention officer in the exercise of powers under this section; or (b) fail to answer truthfully any question put to the person by a home detention officer pursuant to those powers. Maximum penalty: $5 000. 37D—Crown not liable to maintain prisoners on home detention The Crown is not liable to maintain a prisoner who is serving a period of home detention (whether the home detention is home detention under this Division or home detention served under a home detention order).