Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Rules

74B: Further provisions concerning rules about drug and alcohol testing and monitoring

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"Rules for drug and alcohol testing when you're on parole"

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When you are on parole, you might have to follow rules about drug and alcohol testing. The rules can say how you will be tested, such as by breathing into a machine or giving a blood or urine sample. You will be supervised by someone of the same sex as you when you give a sample.

The person in charge makes these rules, but only if they think the rules are fair and do not intrude on you too much. The rules must make sure you are tested only as often as needed to check you are not taking drugs or drinking alcohol. You should be treated with privacy and dignity when you are being tested.

If there is a conflict between two rules, one rule says that you must be supervised by someone of the same sex, and this rule is more important than the rule about privacy and dignity.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Rules

74BFurther provisions concerning rules about drug and alcohol testing and monitoring

  1. Rules made under section 74A(a) may, without limitation, prescribe testing procedures that do all or any of the following:

  2. include, as part of the procedure, either or both of the following:
    1. breath screening:
      1. the collection and analysis of breath, blood, hair, urine, or any other bodily sample:
      2. require an offender to be supervised by a person of the same sex as the offender during the collection of a bodily sample required for testing:
        1. provide for an offender to elect, if the offender meets in advance all actual and reasonable costs, to have part of a bodily sample (or 1 bodily sample from a set of samples collected at the same time) independently tested in a manner prescribed in the rules.
          1. The chief executive may make rules under section 74A only if satisfied that the rules—

          2. prescribe testing procedures that are no more intrusive than is reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with a drug or alcohol condition; and
            1. allow for offenders to be tested no more often than is reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with a drug or alcohol condition; and
              1. ensure that offenders liable to testing and monitoring are afforded as much privacy and dignity as is reasonably practicable.
                1. Subsection (1)(b) overrides subsection (2)(c).

                Notes
                • Section 74B: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Parole (Drug and Alcohol Testing) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 84).