Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Conditions

14: Standard release conditions

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When you are released from prison, you must follow some rules. You have to report to a probation officer in the area where you live within 72 hours. You must tell the probation officer where you live and work.

You cannot move to a new address without the probation officer's permission. If you do move, you must report to a new probation officer within 72 hours. You must give the probation officer notice before changing your address.

You cannot live at an address the probation officer says you cannot live at. You cannot leave New Zealand without the probation officer's permission. You may have to give biometric information, like fingerprints, if the probation officer asks.

You cannot work at a job the probation officer says you cannot do. You cannot hang out with people the probation officer says you cannot hang out with. You may have to take part in a programme to help you get back on your feet.

A probation area is an area where a probation officer works, and it is decided by the chief executive. You can find more information about this in the Parole Act 2002 and the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Conditions

14Standard release conditions

  1. An offender who is subject to the standard release conditions must comply with the following conditions:

  2. the offender must report in person to a probation officer in the probation area in which the offender resides as soon as practicable, and not later than 72 hours, after release:
    1. the offender must report to a probation officer as and when required to do so by a probation officer, and must notify the probation officer of his or her residential address and the nature and place of his or her employment when asked to do so:
      1. the offender must not move to a new residential address in another probation area without the prior written consent of the probation officer:
        1. if consent is given under paragraph (c), the offender must report in person to a probation officer in the new probation area in which the offender is to reside as soon as practicable, and not later than 72 hours, after the offender's arrival in the new area:
          1. if an offender intends to change his or her residential address within a probation area, the offender must give the probation officer reasonable notice before moving from his or her residential address (unless notification is impossible in the circumstances) and must advise the probation officer of the new address:
            1. the offender must not reside at any address at which a probation officer has directed the offender not to reside:
              1. the offender must not leave or attempt to leave New Zealand without the prior written consent of a probation officer:
                1. the offender must, if a probation officer directs, allow the collection of biometric information:
                  1. the offender must not engage, or continue to engage, in any employment or occupation in which the probation officer has directed the offender not to engage or continue to engage:
                    1. the offender must not associate with any specified person, or with persons of any specified class, with whom the probation officer has, in writing, directed the offender not to associate:
                      1. the offender must take part in a rehabilitative and reintegrative needs assessment if and when directed to do so by a probation officer.
                        1. Repealed
                        2. In this section, probation area means an area designated by the chief executive for the administration of release conditions, community-based sentences, sentences of home detention (including post-detention conditions), or orders.

                        3. For the purposes of any provision of this Act relating to the imposition of standard release conditions, those conditions must be treated as if they were imposed by the Board.

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                        Notes
                        • Section 14(1)(fa): inserted, on , by section 51 of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 42).
                        • Section 14(1)(fb): inserted, on , by section 51 of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 42).
                        • Section 14(2): repealed, on , by section 10(1) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
                        • Section 14(3): amended, on , by section 10(2) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
                        • Section 14(4): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Parole Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 4).