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Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Parole

32: When parole ends

You could also call this:

"Parole ends when you reach your release date or get sent back to prison"

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When you are on parole, it ends in two ways. You stop being on parole when you reach your statutory release date, which is decided under section 17(1). You also stop being on parole if you go back to prison because of a final recall order.

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Release: Parole

32When parole ends

  1. An offender who has been released on parole ceases to be on parole—

  2. when the offender reaches his or her statutory release date (as determined under section 17(1)); or
    1. if the offender resumes detention in a prison under a final recall order.

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      • Section 32(b): amended, on , by section 206 of the Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50).