83AEInformation and access to proceedings, &c.

83AE Information and access to proceedings, &c.

[Section 83AE of Part 8 Inserted by No. 14 of 2018, s. 7, Applied:14 Dec 2018]

(1)  The Board may receive and take into account any information provided by a body or agency of this State, another State, a Territory or the Commonwealth, that may be relevant to the Board making a decision –

(a) as to whether a prisoner is a terrorism-linked prisoner or has promoted a terrorist act; or

(b) in relation to parole in respect of a prisoner who is a terrorism-linked prisoner or who has promoted a terrorist act.

(2)  Subsection (1) does not limit the information that the Board may receive and take into account for the purposes of making a decision referred to in that subsection.

(3)  In any proceedings before the Board in relation to the making of a decision referred to in subsection (1) in respect of a prisoner, the Board may make any one or more of the following orders:

(a) that all or part of the proceedings are to be heard in private;

(b) that only persons, or members of a class of persons, specified by the Board may be present during all or part of the proceedings;

(c) that the publication of a report of all or part of the proceedings, or of any information that is disclosed in, or referred to in, all or part of the proceedings, is prohibited.

(4)  In any proceedings before a court in relation to a decision, by the Board, referred to in subsection (1) , in respect of a prisoner, the court may make any one or more of the following orders:

(a) that all or part of the proceedings are to be heard in closed court;

(b) that only persons, or members of a class of persons, specified by the court may be present during all or part of the proceedings;

(c) that the publication of a report of all or part of any of the following is prohibited:

(i) the proceedings;