Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Variation and discharge of conditions

56: Application for variation or discharge of conditions

You could also call this:

"Asking to change or cancel your parole conditions"

If you are an offender with release conditions, you can apply to the Board to change or cancel these conditions at any time. A probation officer can also apply to the Board to change or cancel your release conditions. When you make an application, you need to say whether you want to appear before the Board to talk about your case. If a probation officer applies to change or cancel one of your conditions, they might be able to pause that condition until the application is decided. This does not apply if you have a sentence with no end date and the application is about standard release conditions, you can find more information by comparing with the Parole Act 1985.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Variation and discharge of conditions

56Application for variation or discharge of conditions

An offender who is subject to release conditions imposed by the Board may apply to the Board at any time for the variation or discharge of any of those conditions.
A probation officer may at any time apply to the Board for the variation or discharge of any release condition imposed by the Board that applies to an offender.
An application under this section must indicate whether or not the offender wishes to appear before the Board to state his or her case.
When a probation officer applies for the variation or discharge of a condition, the probation officer may suspend the condition until the application is determined.
Subsection (4) does not apply to an application for variation or discharge of standard release conditions imposed on an offender who is subject to an indeterminate sentence.

Compare

1985 No 120 s 107G(1)–(3)

Notes

Section 56(1): amended, on 1 October 2007, by section 34(1) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
Section 56(2): amended, on 1 October 2007, by section 34(2) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).
Section 56(5): inserted, on 22 January 2014, by section 53 of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).