Review of safety order—official visitor
56 Review of safety order—official visitor
A prisoner subject to a safety order may apply in writing to the chief executive for referral of the order to an official visitor for review.
After receiving the application, the chief executive must refer the safety order to an official visitor.
The official visitor must review the safety order.
If a safety order for a prisoner is for a period of more than 1 month, an official visitor must review the order—
as near as practicable to the end of the first month; and
subsequently, at intervals of not more than 1 month until the period ends.
When reviewing a safety order, an official visitor may exercise the powers mentioned in section 291.
After completing a review, an official visitor must recommend to the chief executive whether the safety order should be confirmed, amended or cancelled.
If the official visitor recommends that the safety order be amended by reducing the period of the order, or that the order be cancelled, the official visitor must also recommend to the chief executive what should be done about any privileges forfeited by the prisoner while the order applied to the prisoner.
The chief executive must consider the recommendations and either confirm, amend or cancel the safety order.
To remove any doubt, it is declared that the chief executive is not bound by an official visitor’s recommendations.
For this section, 2 or more safety orders running consecutively are taken to be 1 safety order.
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