Parole Act 2019
Number 28 of 2019
PAROLE ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 3 May 2023
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Parole Act 2019. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (10/2023), enacted 2 May 2023, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 213 of 2023), made 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 28 of 2019
PAROLE ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 3 May 2023
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
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Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 (3/2023)
• Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Act 2022 (7/2022)
• Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2021 (36/2021)
All Acts up to and including Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (10/2023), enacted 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Parole Act 2019 (Establishment Day) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 406 of 2021)
• Parole Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 405 of 2021)
All statutory instruments up to and including Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 213 of 2023), made 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 28 of 2019
PAROLE ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 3 May 2023
CONTENTS
PART 1
Preliminary and General
1. Short title and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Nomination of family members
4. Regulations
5. Expenses
6. Application of Act
PART 2
The Parole Board
7. Establishment day
8. Establishment of Board
9. Functions of Board
10. Membership of Board
11. Term of appointment of members of Board
12. Resignation, removal, disqualification, ineligibility etc. for office of member of Board
13. Powers of Board
14. Procedures of Board
15. Meetings
16. Liability of Board and chief executive
17. Staff of Board
18. Chief executive of Board
19. Superannuation
20. Accounts and audit
21. Accountability of chief executive to Public Accounts Committee
23. Reports
PART 3
The Parole Process
24. Eligibility for Parole
25. Notification by Irish Prison Service of eligibility for parole
26. Application for parole
27. Decision on parole
28. Parole order
29. Compliance by relevant governor with parole order
30. Refusal of application for parole
31. Variation of parole order
32. Specification of condition attaching to parole order
33. Revocation of parole order
34. Persons unlawfully at large
35. Arrest of person unlawfully at large
36. Consideration of revocation of parole order of person unlawfully at large
PART 4
Miscellaneous
37. Amendment of Criminal Justice Act 2007
38. Amendment of Defamation Act 2009
39. Amendment of Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014
40. Amendment of Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017
41. Amendment of Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017
Acts Referred to
Children Act 2001 (No. 24)
Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)
Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005
Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)
Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 (No. 8)
Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 (No. 11)
Criminal Justice (Release of Prisoners) Act 1998 (No. 36)
Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners) Act 2003 (No. 34)
Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 (No. 28)
Criminal Justice Act 1951 (No. 2)
Criminal Justice Act 1960 (No. 27)
Criminal Justice Act 1990 (No. 16)
Criminal Justice Act 2007 (No. 29)
Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006 (No. 11)
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 (No. 2)
Defamation Act 2009 (No. 31)
European Parliament Elections Act 1997 (No. 2)
Firearms Act 1964 (No. 1)
Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (No. 27)
Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25)
Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 (No. 12)
Prisons Act 1970 (No. 11)
Prisons Act 1972 (No. 7)
Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (No. 33)
Universities Act 1997 (No. 24)
Number 28 of 2019
PAROLE ACT 2019
REVISED
Updated to 3 May 2023
An Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Bord Parúil or, in the English language, the Parole Board; to provide for its functions; to amend certain enactments; and to provide for related matters.
[23rd July, 2019]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: