Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Annual report of department
190Matters to be included in annual report
The department's annual report under section 43 of the Public Finance Act 1989 must—
- include a report on the way in which the chief executive has carried out his or her functions under section 8(1)(k) and the way in which prison managers have undertaken their functions under section 12(d), during the year to which the report relates; and
- include a report on the work undertaken by inspectors of corrections during the year to which the report relates which includes—
- statistical information about the disposition of complaints made by persons under control or supervision during that period:
- comment on issues arising out of complaints or visits during that period; and
- statistical information about the disposition of complaints made by persons under control or supervision during that period:
- describe the processes and systems in place during the year to which the report relates to supervise and control the monitoring of prisoner calls or other prisoner communications and information sources under this Act; and
- state, as an approximate proportion of the prisoner calls monitored (otherwise than merely by being recorded) during the year to which the report relates, the number of calls disclosed
to any person other than an employee of the chief executive or a contractor; and - state,—
- as an approximate proportion of the prisoner calls monitored (otherwise than merely by being recorded) during the year to which the report relates, the number of calls disclosed under section 127N to an employee of a chief executive or a contractor; and
- as an approximate proportion of those prisoner calls disclosed, the number of proceedings against a prisoner for a disciplinary offence in which a recording of any of those calls was used in evidence; and
- as an approximate proportion of the prisoner calls monitored (otherwise than merely by being recorded) during the year to which the report relates, the number of calls disclosed under section 127N to an employee of a chief executive or a contractor; and
- state, in relation to the year to which the report relates,—
- the intelligence priorities for the department and any themes and trends:
- the methods the department used to monitor prisoner communications and information sources:
- the number of requests made to the chief executive to monitor visits and the number of requests that were approved or declined:
- the agencies to whom disclosures were made under subpart 4A of Part 2:
- the number of eligible employees who were authorised intelligence persons; and
- the intelligence priorities for the department and any themes and trends:
- include a report on the types of programmes for which accused prisoners and convicted prisoners were mixed and the number of prisoners who were mixed for those programmes; and
- include a report on—
- the measures taken to reduce drug and alcohol use by prisoners:
- the effectiveness of those measures:
- random-testing programmes, including a summary of results of those programmes; and
- the measures taken to reduce drug and alcohol use by prisoners:
- include a report on the operation of every security contract that was in force for the whole, or any part, of the year to which the annual report relates; and
- include a report on the operation of every contract prison that was in operation for the whole or any part of the year to which the annual report relates.
Without limiting subsection (1)(g), every report referred to in that paragraph must include—
- a summary of—during the year to which the annual report relates; and
- the reports forwarded to the chief executive under section 171(2) or (3) (and, if applicable, the reports forwarded under section 36ZC(2) or (3) of the Penal Institutions Act 1954); and
- the reports made to the chief executive under section 172(2)(b) (and, if applicable, the reports, if any, made under section 36ZD(2)(b) of the Penal Institutions Act 1954)—
- the reports forwarded to the chief executive under section 171(2) or (3) (and, if applicable, the reports forwarded under section 36ZC(2) or (3) of the Penal Institutions Act 1954); and
- a summary of any actions taken, during that year, in relation to the operation of security contracts as a result of any matters raised in any report so forwarded or made, whether during that year or any previous year.
Without limiting subsection (1)(h), every report referred to in that paragraph must include—
- a summary of—during the year to which the annual report relates; and
- the reports forwarded to the chief executive under section 199D(1A), (2), and (3); and
- the reports made to the chief executive under section 199E(3)(b)—
- the reports forwarded to the chief executive under section 199D(1A), (2), and (3); and
- a summary of any actions taken, during that year, in relation to the management of contract prisons as a result of any matters raised in any report so forwarded or made, whether during that year or any previous year.
Compare
- 1954 No 51 ss 4K, 36ZI
Notes
- Section 190(1): amended, on , by section 37(1) of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).
- Section 190(1)(b)(i): amended, on , by section 5 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 97).
- Section 190(1)(c): amended, on , by section 47(1) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).
- Section 190(1)(d): amended, on , by section 47(2) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).
- Section 190(1)(e)(i): amended, on , by section 47(3) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).
- Section 190(1)(ea): inserted, on , by section 47(4) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).
- Section 190(1)(eb): inserted, on , by section 47(4) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).
- Section 190(3)(a)(i): amended, on , by section 41 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 5).
- Section 190(3)(a)(i): amended, on , by section 8(1) of the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 59).
- Section 190(3)(a)(ii): amended, on , by section 8(1) of the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 59).


