193Information concerning offenders and correctional centres

193 Information concerning offenders and correctional centres

193 Information concerning offenders and correctional centres

(1) Any person who is a member of the Parole Authority, or is authorised in writing by the Parole Authority in that behalf, is entitled to free and unfettered access at all reasonable times to any offender confined in a correctional centre—

(a) whose release under a re-integration home detention order or on parole is being considered by the Parole Authority, or

(b) whose case has been referred to the Parole Authority by the Minister, or

(c) in respect of whom a non-parole period is applicable, or

(d) who is being held after a special verdict of act proven but not criminally responsible within the meaning of the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, or

(e) who is a licensee (within the meaning of the repealed Sentencing Act 1989) or a person whose existing licence (within the meaning of the repealed Sentencing Act 1989) has been revoked,

and it is the duty of the governor of the correctional centre to provide any such person with facilities for communicating with or observing any such offender.

(2) The Commissioner of Corrective Services or the Commissioner of Police must, if so requested by the Parole Authority, supply to the Parole Authority reports on the conduct and character of—

(a) any offender referred to in subsection (1), and

(b) any offender who is for the time being subject to a re-integration home detention order or parole order.

(3) If any offender referred to in subsection (2) was formerly a person detained in a detention centre, within the meaning of the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987, the Secretary of the Department of Justice must, if requested by the Parole Authority, supply to the Parole Authority a report on the conduct and character of the offender while as a person detained in a detention centre.

(4) The Secretary of the Ministry of Health must, if requested by the Parole Authority—