Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered ActsPart 1, Division 3
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(1) A person appointed as a probation and parole officer under the Correctional Services Act is a probation and parole officer for this Act.
(2) The Commissioner is also a probation and parole officer for this Act.
(3) The functions of a probation and parole officer include the following:
(a) preparing reports for the Court as required;
(b) supervising youths who are the subject of supervision under a non-custodial order;
(c) monitoring the compliance of a youth who is the subject of an alternative detention order with the terms and conditions of the order;
(d) other duties as directed by the Commissioner.
(4) A probation and parole officer may, at any time and without a warrant, enter premises or a place in or at which a youth is, in accordance with an alternative detention order, residing and:
(a) search those premises or any building at that place, or the youth, for the purposes of determining whether the youth is in breach of the order; or
(b) place, install, inspect or retrieve a monitoring device in or at those premises or that place.
(5) A probation and parole officer may, at any time, require a youth who is the subject of an alternative detention order to undergo such tests as the probation and parole officer considers appropriate to determine whether the youth is in breach of the order.