Correctional Services Amendment Act 25 of 2008

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25 of 2008

The Correctional Services Amendment Act 25 of 2008 aims:

  • to amend the Correctional Services Act, 1998, so as:
    • to insert, substitute, amend or delete certain definitions;
    • to make further provision for the manner in which inmates are detained and the manner in which correctional centres are managed;
    • to authorise the National Council to determine, under certain conditions, the period before an offender may be placed on parole;
    • to make further provision for matters relating to Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards and the judicial Inspectorate;
    • to provide for compliance management and monitoring of relevant prescriptions, a Departmental Investigation Unit and a unit dealing with the institution of disciplinary procedures;
    • to further regulate matters relating to officials of the Department of Correctional Services and the powers of the Minister to make regulations; and
  • to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

1 October 2009, except for Sections 21, 48 and 49 (GazetteĀ 32608 of 1 October 2009)

Amendments

Amended by Correctional Matters Amendment Act 5 of 2011

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