- Act 51 of 1997 - Royal Assent 11 December 1997 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Long Title PART 1 - Preliminary 1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Guiding principles PART 2 - Administration 5. Appointment of Director and other persons 6. Powers and duties of Director 7. Delegation 8. Confidentiality PART 3 - Establishment and control of prisons Division 1 - Establishment of prisons 9. Establishment of prisons Division 2 - Access to prison 10. Official visitors 11. Visits by judges, magistrates, &c. 12. Visits 13. Power of Director to approve certain organisations 14. Visits by members of approved organisations 15. Exclusion of visitors for security reasons 16. Visits by legal practitioners and their assistants 17. Visits by police 18. Visitors to give prescribed information 19. Director may refuse or terminate visits for security reasons 20. Formal searches 21. Removal of persons from prison 22. Search 23. Seizure 24. Prohibition against bringing unauthorised articles and things into prisons 25. Children PART 4 - Custody and treatment of prisoners and detainees 26. Circumstances in which prisoners, &c., are in custody of Director, &c. 27. Removal of prisoners and detainees into control of Director 28. Random testing and searching of prisoners and detainees 29. Rights of prisoners and detainees 30. Medical tests for HIV, &c. 31. Report of test 32. Application of HIV/AIDS Preventive Measures Act 1993 33. Work 34. Payment for prisoners' work, &c. PART 5 - Transfers, removals and temporary absences from prison of prisoners and detainees 35. Approval of hospitals and institutions 36. Removal of prisoners and detainees to other prisons and to hospitals, &c. 37. Bringing of prisoners and detainees before courts 38. Removal of prisoners and detainees in aid of administration of justice 39. Effect of directions and orders under sections 36, 37 and 38 40. Custody of prisoners and detainees removed pursuant to sections 36, 37 and 38 41. Authorisation to be absent from prison 42. Leave permits 43. Revocation of leave permits 44. Alteration of leave permits 45. Provisions applicable to persons holding leave permits, &c. 46. Arrangements with Commonwealth PART 6 - Interstate leave of absence for prisoners 47. Interpretation: Part 6 48. Interstate laws 49. Interstate leave permit 50. Effect of interstate leave permit 51. Variation or revocation of interstate leave permit 52. Breach of interstate leave permit 53. Notice to participating State and transit States 54. Effect of permit issued under interstate law 55. Escape from custody of prisoner on leave of absence 56. Escape from custody penalty PART 7 - Prison Discipline 57. Disciplinary officers 58. Prison offences 59. Procedure in dealing with allegations of commission of prison offences 60. Appeals against decision of disciplinary officer 61. Penalties which may be imposed on prisoner or detainee PART 8 - Parole Division 1 - Parole Board 62. Establishment of Parole Board 63. Powers of Board 64. Reports 65. Judicial notice 66. Secretary and other officers 67. Protection of members of Board and other persons Division 2 - Eligibility for parole 68. Statutory non-parole period 69. Prisoner not to be released on parole in certain circumstances 70. Where prisoner eligible for parole 71. Prisoner subject to more than one non-parole period or other minimum term 72. Release on parole 73. Orders and documents signed on behalf of Board 74. Reports on prisoners eligible for parole 75. Period of parole 76. Sentences for offences committed during release on parole 77. Effect of parole orders 78. Prisoner on parole taken to be still under sentence 79. Power of Board to revoke parole orders, &c. 80. Warrants for return of prisoners to prison 81. Authority of warrant 82. Power of Board to release prisoner on parole after previous revocation 83. Board to determine its own procedures in relation to certain matters PART 9 - Miscellaneous 84. Proof that person is prisoner or detainee 85. Warrant of commitment not void by reason of formal defect 86. Remissions 87. Special remissions 88. Community corrections programs 89. Preservation of Royal prerogative of mercy 90. Regulations 91. Repeal 92. Savings and transitional provisions 93. Administration of Act SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 4[ Note: This table has been automatically generated and may be incomplete. ]