Correctional Services Regulations 2014

(1) A home detainee who is absent from the detainee's approved residence does not breach the detainee's home detention order or administrative non-custodial order if any of the following apply:

(a) the detainee's absence is necessary in order to comply with a direction of a probation and parole officer;

(b) the detainee's absence is for one of the following and has been approved by a probation and parole officer:

(iv) practices associated with the detainee's religion or belief system;

(c) the detainee's absence is for the purpose of seeking urgent treatment from a health practitioner and the detainee complies with subregulations (2) and (3).

(2) If the detainee is absent for the purpose of seeking urgent treatment, the detainee must give a probation and parole officer a certificate, signed by a health practitioner, stating the grounds on which the treatment was sought.

(3) The certificate must be given to the probation and parole officer not more than 72 hours (or any longer period allowed by the officer) after the detainee left the detainee's approved residence.

(4) If the detainee is absent from the detainee's approved residence for a purpose mentioned in subregulation (1) the detainee must:

(a) travel without delay and by the shortest practicable route from the approved residence to the place where that purpose is to be carried out; and

(b) return to the approved residence by the shortest practicable route as soon as practicable after the purpose has been completed.