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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending - Public protection orders - Review by review panel

15: Review of public protection order by review panel

You could also call this:

"Checking if a public protection order is still needed to keep people safe"

Illustration for Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

While a public protection order is in place, a review panel checks if the order is still needed. You can think of a public protection order as a special rule to help keep people safe. The review panel does this within one year of the order being made.

The review panel then checks again every year after that, but if someone has asked the court to change the order, the panel waits until the court has made a decision. If the review panel thinks the person is no longer a very high risk to others, it can ask for the order to be reviewed by the court under section 16. This is to make sure the order is still fair and necessary.

If the review panel does not ask for the order to be reviewed, it checks the management plan for the person to see if it is still working. The management plan is like a set of rules to help the person stay safe and not hurt others. The review panel can also give advice to the person in charge of where the person is living.

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Public protection orders: Review by review panel

15Review of public protection order by review panel

  1. During the currency of a public protection order, the review panel must review the continuing justification of the order—

  2. within 1 year after the order is made; and
    1. then—
      1. within every succeeding year after the most recent previous review of the order by the review panel; but
        1. if an application (other than an application for leave) under section 16 or 17 is pending before the court, within 1 year after the date on which the application is determined or withdrawn.

        2. If the review panel considers that there may no longer be a very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending by the person subject to the public protection order, the review panel may direct the chief executive to apply to the court for a review of the order under section 16.

        3. Where, in the case of a resident, the review panel does not give a direction under subsection (2), the review panel—

        4. must review the management plan of the resident to ascertain whether the plan continues to be appropriate; and
          1. may make any recommendations to the manager of the residence in which the resident is required to stay.