This Act is about changing the rules for when people who have done something wrong can leave detention. You will find that it deals with people who are in prison because they broke the law. The Act replaces some old rules that were in the Criminal Justice Act 1985, specifically Parts 4 and 6 of that Act.
The old rules were about how people who are serving time in prison could be released. This Act updates those rules to make them better. It wants to make sure the rules are fair and work well for everyone.
When you read this Act, you will see that it talks about sentences of imprisonment. This means the time a person must spend in prison as a punishment for doing something wrong. The Act is trying to make the rules around this clearer and more modern.
The Act is meant to improve the law around releasing people from prison. It does this by replacing the old rules with new ones that are better. You can look at the Criminal Justice Act 1985 to see what the old rules were, and then compare them to the new rules in this Act.
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1: Title, or
"What the Parole Act 2002 is about"
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
