11E Application of Act to offenders or agents

(1) An offender, or an offender's agent, is not entitled to obtain access to a risk assessment document received, or brought into existence, by—

(a) the department in which the Corrective Services Act 2006 is administered; or

(b) a parole board as defined under that Act.

(2) In this section—

offender means an offender as defined under the Corrective Services Act 2006—

(a) who is serving a term of imprisonment for a prescribed offence, or serving a period of imprisonment that includes a term of imprisonment for a prescribed offence, whether the person was sentenced to the term or period of imprisonment before or after the commencement of this section; or

(b) who is a detained dangerous prisoner (sexual offender), or a supervised dangerous prisoner (sexual offender), as defined under the Corrective Services Act 2006.

Note—
Under the Corrective Services Act 2006, schedule 4, offender means—
(a) a prisoner; or
(b) a person who is subject to—

(i) a community based order; or
(ii) a conditional release order.

period of imprisonment see the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4.

prescribed offence means—

(a) an offence against a provision mentioned in the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, schedule; or

Note—
See the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 208(2).

(b) an offence against the Criminal Code, section 302; or

(c) an offence against the Criminal Code, section 359E.

risk assessment document means a document, or that part of a document, that assesses or is used for the assessment of—

(a) the risk an offender may pose to the community; or

(b) a risk to the security or good order of a corrective services facility as defined under the Corrective Services Act 2006.

Example for paragraph (a)—
a document prepared to help the chief executive make a decision under the Corrective Services Act 2006, section 12(2), 66 or 98

term of imprisonment see the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4.