Correctional Services Act 2014
132Commissioner may issue permits
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132 Commissioner may issue permits (1) The Commissioner may issue a permit (an administrative home detention permit) to a qualifying prisoner that authorises the prisoner to reside at a place outside a custodial correctional facility that is specified in the permit. (2) A prisoner is a qualifying prisoner if: (a) the prisoner is not a disqualified prisoner; and
Correctional Services Act 2014 59 (b) the period from which it is proposed the permit will come into force to the prisoner's release date is 12 months or less. (3) A prisoner is a disqualified prisoner if the prisoner: (a) is under a sentence of imprisonment and one or more of the following applies: (i) the sentence includes a non-parole period; (ii) the prisoner has served less than 50% of the term of imprisonment; (iii) Part 3, Division 6A of the Sentencing Act 1995 applied to the sentence and the person has not yet served the minimum term of imprisonment that the sentencing court was required under that Division to impose; (iv) the sentence is for an indefinite term of imprisonment under Part 3, Division 5, Subdivision 4 of the Sentencing Act 1995; or (b) is a youth prisoner; or (c) is a detainee under the Serious Sex Offenders Act 2013; or (d) is an immigration detainee.