South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) The Minister may
appoint such home detention officers for the purposes of this Division and the
Sentencing Act 2017 as the Minister thinks fit.
(2) The CE must—
(a) on
the receipt of a copy of a home detention order in respect of a prisoner; or
(b) on
the release of a prisoner under this Division,
assign the prisoner to a home detention officer, and the CE may from time to
time re-assign the prisoner to another home detention officer.
(3) A home detention
officer to whom a prisoner is assigned—
(a) may
give reasonable directions to the prisoner—
(i)
requiring the prisoner to take up, not to take up or not
to give up some particular employment; or
(ii)
requiring the prisoner to attend a particular course of
counselling or instruction; and
(b) may
give the prisoner other directions of a kind authorised by the Minister either
generally or in relation to the particular prisoner.
(4) Any home detention
officer may, at any time—
(a)
enter or telephone the residence of a prisoner serving a period of
home detention; or
(b)
telephone the prisoner's place of employment or any other place at which the
prisoner is permitted or required to attend; or
(c)
question any person at that residence or place as to the whereabouts of the
prisoner,
for the purposes of ascertaining whether or not the prisoner is complying with
the conditions to which the prisoner's release is subject.
(5) A person must
not—
(a)
hinder a home detention officer in the exercise of powers under this section;
or
(b) fail
to answer truthfully any question put to the person by a home detention
officer pursuant to those powers.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.