Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of community work centres

31: Chief executive may make rules for community work centres and offenders carrying out community work

You could also call this:

"The boss of corrections can make rules for community work centres and the people who work there."

The chief executive can make rules for community work centres. You will have to follow these rules if you are doing community work at one of these centres. The rules can be about how the centre is run and how you should behave while you are there.

The chief executive can make rules for all community work centres or just for some of them. They can also make rules that apply to all people doing community work or just to certain groups.

The rules must not contradict the Corrections Act 2004, the Sentencing Act 2002, the Parole Act 2002, or any regulations made under those Acts. The rules are a type of secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as outlined in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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30: Establishment of community work centres, or

"The government can create community work centres by announcing it in a special newspaper."

32: Establishment of prisons, or

"The Minister can decide what places are prisons in New Zealand."

Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of community work centres

31Chief executive may make rules for community work centres and offenders carrying out community work

The chief executive may make any rules that the chief executive considers appropriate for—
the management of any community work centre; and
the conduct and welfare of the offenders subject to a sentence of community work while carrying out that sentence at a community work centre or at any other place.

Any rules made under subsection (1) may be made for—
community work centres, or for any community work centre or class of community work centres specified in the rules:
all offenders subject to a sentence of community work or any class of those offenders specified in the rules.

Any rules made under subsection (1) must not be inconsistent with this Act, the Sentencing Act 2002, the Parole Act 2002, or any regulations made under any of those Acts.
Rules under subsection (1) are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Compare

1985 No 120 s 129

Notes

Section 31(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).