South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts63—Powers of the Board
(1) For the purposes
of proceedings before the Board under this Act or any other Act, the Board
may—
(a) by
summons signed on behalf of the Board by a member of the Board, require any
person to attend before the Board; or
(b) by
summons signed on behalf of the Board by a member of the Board, require any
person to produce any document relating to any matter before the Board; or
(c)
require any person to furnish the Board with a written report or written
information in relation to any aspect of a matter before the Board; or
(d)
require any person appearing before the Board to answer on oath or affirmation
any questions put by the Board that are relevant to any matter before
the Board; or
(e)
require any written report or information to be verified by statutory
declaration.
(2) A person
who—
(a)
having been duly served with a summons, fails to attend before the Board, or
fails to produce documents, as required by the summons; or
(b)
wilfully insults the Board or any member of the Board; or
(c)
misbehaves before the Board; or
(d)
interrupts the proceedings of the Board; or
(e)
refuses to be sworn or to affirm, or refuses to answer any question that the
person would be compellable to answer before a court,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for 3 months.
(3) The Board may (and
must, if a prisoner of a prescribed class so requests) interview a prisoner at
any time and, if such an interview is to be conducted outside the prison, may
request the manager of the prison to cause the prisoner to be brought before
the Board at a specified time and place.
(4) The Board is not
obliged to interview a prisoner pursuant to the prisoner's request more than
once in any year.
(5) For the purposes
of this section, a prisoner is of a prescribed class if the prisoner is
serving—
(a) a
sentence of life imprisonment; or
(b) a
sentence of indeterminate duration; or
(c) a
sentence of imprisonment for a term of more than one year in respect of which
a non-parole period has not been fixed.