Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Drug or alcohol conditions

16A: Imposition, and effect, of drug or alcohol condition

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"Rules you must follow if you have a drug or alcohol condition on your parole"

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If the Parole Board puts a drug or alcohol condition on you, this means you have to follow certain rules. The Board cannot tell you to have drug or alcohol tests or be monitored all the time, but you have to do what an authorised person tells you to do if they give you a notice under section 16B(2). You might have to do things like have tests for drugs or alcohol, wear a monitoring device, or contact an automated system and have tests if it tells you to, as required by a notice given by an authorised person under section 16B(2).

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Drug or alcohol conditions

16AImposition, and effect, of drug or alcohol condition

  1. This section applies if the Board imposes a drug or alcohol condition on an offender under section 15(3)(ba), 18(2)(b), or 107K(1).

  2. The Board cannot direct, indicate, or require that the offender undergo or submit to drug or alcohol testing or continuous monitoring, but the condition requires the offender to comply with all requirements arising from an authorised person giving the offender notice under section 16B(2).

  3. The Board must advise the offender that the offender must do any 1 or more of the following things if required to do so by notice given by an authorised person under section 16B(2):

  4. undergo testing for a controlled drug, a psychoactive substance, or alcohol:
    1. submit to continuous monitoring of the offender's compliance with the drug or alcohol condition through a drug or alcohol monitoring device connected to the offender’s body:
      1. contact an automated system, and undergo testing for a controlled drug, a psychoactive substance, or alcohol if required by a response notice given by the automated system.
        Notes
        • Section 16A: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Parole (Drug and Alcohol Testing) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 84).