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Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Actual release

53: Licence issued on release

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"Getting a licence with rules to follow when you leave prison"

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When you are released from prison, you must get a licence. This licence tells you what rules you must follow when you are out of prison. It also tells you when these rules stop applying to you.

If you are not subject to any rules when you leave prison, you do not need a licence. You will get a licence if you have rules to follow, like where you can live. This licence explains what you can and cannot do, and what happens if you break the rules.

If the rules change, you get a new licence that shows the updated rules. You can compare this to the Crimes Act 1985 to see how the law used to be.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Actual release

53Licence issued on release

  1. When an offender is released from detention in a prison, he or she must be issued with a licence that sets out—

  2. the release conditions that apply to the offender; and
    1. the date or dates on which the conditions, or any of them, cease to apply; and
      1. details about liability to recall.

        1. Subsection (1) does not apply to an offender who is released from a short-term sentence if, on release, the offender is not subject to any release conditions.

        2. An offender subject to residential restrictions must, before the restrictions come into force, be issued with a licence that sets out—

        3. the residential restrictions; and
          1. the date or dates on which they, or any of them, come into force and cease to be in force; and
            1. the obligations to comply with the directions given by a probation officer; and
              1. the consequences of non-compliance with the conditions; and
                1. the statutory provisions under which the conditions may be varied or discharged.

                  1. If an offender's release conditions are varied or discharged, the offender must be given a new or amended licence that shows the conditions as varied or discharged.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 53(1): amended, on , by section 32(1) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
                  • Section 53(1): amended, on , by section 206 of the Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50).
                  • Section 53(1)(a): amended, on , by section 32(2) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
                  • Section 53(3): substituted, on , by section 32(3) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
                  • Section 53(4): amended, on , by section 32(4) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).