Following an amendment to the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005 (the CSA Act) that came into effect on 2 March 2016, the Sentence Administration Board's (the Board) supervisory powers were extended to:
Police officers and community corrections officers can report an alleged breach to the Board. Similar to parole, a community corrections officer must report any alleged breaches of intensive correction orders, which they believe on reasonable grounds has occurred, to the Board. The Board is required to hold a hearing into the breach as soon as practicable, and give notice of a hearing to the offender, the Director-General of Justice and Community Safety and the Director of Public Prosecutions.
If the Board finds that the breach is proved, then it may take one or more of the following actions:
The Board cannot impose any additional conditions or vary any conditions of intensive correction orders.
An offender who has had their order cancelled by the Board may apply to it have it re-instated after they have served 30 days in custody.
A court will cancel an order, unless the court considers it not in the interests of justice, where the offender is convicted of an offence that is punishable by imprisonment.