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Parole Act 2002

New Zealand Parole Board and amendments to other enactments relating to parole and release generally - Membership of Board

114: Panel convenors

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To be a panel convenor, you must be a District Court Judge, a former District Court Judge, or a barrister or solicitor who has had a practising certificate for at least 7 years. There is an exception to this rule, which allows one person who is a High Court Judge or a former High Court Judge to be a panel convenor at any time. As a panel convenor, you have several jobs, including presiding at hearings, deciding matters of procedure, and signing the panel's decision.

You also have to make interim recall orders under section 62, and undertake reviews under sections 46(2) and 67. Additionally, you have to do anything else that you are required to do under this Act or any other law, and you may have to help the chairperson with their jobs. If a panel convenor is not available for a hearing, the chairperson can appoint someone else to be an acting panel convenor.

If the chairperson is sitting on a parole panel, they can act as a panel convenor and have all the same functions and powers as a panel convenor.

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Part 2New Zealand Parole Board and amendments to other enactments relating to parole and release generally
Membership of Board

114Panel convenors

  1. Every member who is appointed as a panel convenor must be a District Court Judge, a former District Court Judge, or a barrister or solicitor who has held a practising certificate for at least 7 years.

  2. Despite subsection (1), at any time there may be appointed as a panel convenor 1 person who is a Judge of the High Court or a former Judge of the High Court.

  3. The functions of a panel convenor are—

    1. at a hearing,—
      1. to preside at the hearing; and
        1. to determine any matters of procedure that may arise during or in relation to the hearing; and
          1. to sign the decision of the panel at that hearing; and
          2. to make interim recall orders under section 62; and
            1. to undertake reviews under sections 46(2) and 67; and
              1. to do anything else that a panel convenor is required to do under this Act or any other enactment; and
                1. under the direction of the chairperson, to undertake or assist in the exercise of any of his or her functions.

                  1. The chairperson may appoint any member (whether or not qualified to be a panel convenor) as an acting panel convenor in respect of a particular hearing or number of hearings if, for any reason, a panel convenor is not available for that hearing or those hearings.

                  2. If the chairperson sits on a parole panel, he or she may act as a panel convenor for the purposes of that sitting; and for that purpose the chairperson has all the functions and powers of a panel convenor.

                  Notes
                  • Section 114(3)(a): repealed, on , by section 26 of the Parole Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 4).
                  • Section 114(3)(d): amended, on , by section 68(2) of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).