Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)

Chapter VI : Community Corrections

58. Supervision Committee

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1)
a)There must be a Supervision Committee at each community corrections office composed, as prescribed by regulation, of correctional officials involved in the supervision of persons subject to community corrections and, if practicable, of a person or persons from the community who are experts in behavioural sciences.
b)A Supervision Committee must be managed by correctional officials in the manner prescribed by regulation.

 

2)The Supervision Committee must determine the level of supervision for each person subject to community corrections and must review its determination at regular intervals.

 

3)The Supervision Committee must review at regular intervals the extent to which the objectives of community corrections are being achieved in respect of each person subject to community corrections.

 

4)An additional review may be held at the request of the person subject to community corrections or of the correctional official directly responsible for the supervision of such person.

 

5)A person subject to community corrections must be informed of a meeting where his or her case will be discussed, the issues which will be raised and that he or she may make written submissions to be considered by the Supervision Committee.

 

6)After having reviewed the extent to which the objectives of community corrections are being achieved in respect of a person subject to community corrections, the Supervision Committee must-
a)decide whether the means and level of supervision applied to such person should be modified; and
b)submit a report and advise the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board or the National Commissioner, as the case may be, on the desirability of-
i)applying for a change in the conditions of the community corrections imposed on such person; or
ii)applying for or issuing a warrant for the arrest of such a person.