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Corrections and Sentencing Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
The Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety has announced it will be undertaking an inquiry into the Corrections and Sentencing Legislation Amendment Bill 2022.
The terms of reference are available on the Committee website here.
The Bill contains the following proposed amendments to the administration of corrective services and community based sentences. Included in the amendments are changes to:
- adopt elements of a COVID-19 measure (section 102A) to provide community corrections officers with greater flexibility to deal with breaches of a good behaviour order
- support a national system of interstate transfers for community-based sentences and associated community-based orders
- allow searches by certain scanning devices of non-detainees (staff, contractors and visitors) by a corrections officer of any sex
- clearly authorise routine scanning and ordinary searches of non-detainees (staff, contractors and visitors) to an ACT correctional centre, as a condition of entry
- make it an offence for a person to send a prohibited item to a correctional centre including via a remotely piloted aircraft
- clarify that the director-general can declare the entirety of an ACT correctional centre to be smoke free
Information on how to make a submission is available on the Assembly website.
Submissions close 31 January 2023.
7 December 2022
STATEMENT ENDS.
For further information please contact:
Committee Chair, Mr Peter Cain MLA on (02) 6205 1927
Committee Secretary on (02) 6207 0524 or at LACommitteeJCS@parliament.act.gov.au