The Parole Board Rules 2016

Made: 31st October 2016

Laid before Parliament: 1st November 2016

Coming into force: 22nd November 2016

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PART 1 — Introduction

Citation, commencement and revocation

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Interpretation

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Application

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PART 2 — General

Referral of cases

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Appointment of panels

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Representation

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Service of information and reports

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Withholding information or reports

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Representations by and evidence of the parties

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Directions

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Directions hearing

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Adjournment and deferral

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Time

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PART 3 — Proceedings on the papers

Consideration by single member appointed under rule 5(1)

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Provisional decision against release

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PART 4 — Proceedings before an oral panel

Consideration by an oral panel

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Oral panel decisions

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Notice of hearing

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Notification by prisoner

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Witness

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Observer

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Location and privacy of proceedings

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Hearing procedure

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The decision

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PART 5 — Miscellaneous

Disclosure of information

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Transmission of documents etc.

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Error of procedure

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SCHEDULE 1 — Information and reports for submission to the Board by the Secretary of State on a reference to the Board to determine the initial release of a prisoner

PART A — Information relating to the prisoner

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PART B — Reports relating to the prisoner

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SCHEDULE 2 — Information and reports for submission to the Board by the Secretary of State on a reference to the Board to determine the release of a recalled prisoner

PART A — Information relating to the prisoner

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PART B — Reports relating to the prisoner

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Signed

Sam Gyimah — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 31st October 2016

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 c. 44.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2011/2947, as amended by S.I. 2014/240.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2014/240.

[^f00004]: The Parole Board is continued in existence by section 239(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44).

[^f00005]: 1997 c. 43; section 34(2) was amended by section 165(1) of and paragraph 183 of Schedule 9 to, the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c.6), section 230 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 18 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), section 378 of, and Schedules 16 and 17 to, the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), and by section 117(1)(b) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10).

[^f00006]: 1991 c. 53.

[^f00007]: 1971 c. 80.

[^f00008]: 1983 c.20.

[^f00009]: 1974 c.53.

[^f00010]: 1983 c.20; section 47 was amended by sections 49(3) and 56(2) and Schedule 6 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.37), section 58(1) of, and paragraph 18 of Schedule 10 to, the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), section 378(1) of, and paragraph 97 of Schedule 16 to, the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), and sections 1 and 4 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 Part 1 to the Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12).

Editorial notes

Summaries of reasons and disclosure of information