New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) REGULATION 2014 - REG 311

311 Additional functions of Review Council

(1) For the purposes of section 197 of the Act, the functions of the Review Council include the provision, at the request of the Commissioner, of reports, advice and recommendations to the Commissioner with respect to--

(a) the management of serious offenders, and

(b) the probability that a serious offender--

(i) who is serving an existing life sentence, and

(ii) who has applied for a local leave permit,

will be fit to be released on parole at the time the Council expects to advise the Parole Authority about release on parole (assuming the serious offender satisfactorily completes a pre-release development program to which the application relates of at least 12 months or other relevant period), and

(c) the designation of inmates as high security, extreme high security, extreme high risk restricted and national security interest inmates (including the revocation or variation of a designation), and

(d) the management of high security, extreme high security, extreme high risk restricted and national security interest inmates (including the periodic review of that management), and

(e) other matters specified by the Commissioner.

(2) For the purposes of section 197 of the Act, the functions of the Review Council also include the carrying out of investigations (that may include the interviewing of correctional centre staff and inmates) that are necessary to enable it to provide reports, advice and recommendations referred to in subclause (1).

(3) In accordance with clause 10(2)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Act--

(a) the provision of reports, advice and recommendations referred to in subclause (1), and

(b) the conduct of investigations referred to in subclause (2),

are prescribed as functions that the Council may delegate to a committee of the Council.

(4) In this clause,
"existing life sentence" has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 1 to the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 .