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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-amendment-rules-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1011",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-amendment-rules-2024",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nRule 2 of this instrument makes a number of amendments to the Parole Board Rules 2019, which set out the procedure to be adopted by the Parole Board (“the Board”) in dealing with cases for release and termination of licences.\nParagraph (2) permits a new list of functions of the Board in parole cases to be delegated to Board staff by amending rule 4. Where a function being exercised is judicial in nature, a party will have liberty to apply to a duty member or the panel chair for that decision to be automatically re-taken, to ensure decisions which impact the procedural fairness of an offenders’ parole proceedings can be reviewed by a member where a party considers it to be necessary.\nParagraphs (10) and (11) amend rules 23 and 24 to permit a panel chair to proceed with an oral hearing in the absence of either the prisoner, or the prisoner and the prisoner’s legal representative, in any case, where it is in the interests of justice to do so.\nParagraph (16) amends rule 31 to reflect adjustments made by the Victims and Prisoners’ Act 2024 (“the 2024 Act”) to the imprisonment for public protection and detention for public protection licence termination regime.\nThis instrument also makes a number of minor amendments including-\nremoving references to directions hearings, which are substantively the same as case management conferences;\nstandardising the time frame for applications from those who wish to observe hearings to 8 weeks, to ensure the Board have time to consider and determine applications;\nclarifying that rule 29 does not provide an avenue for correcting errors to which rules 28 or 28A apply;\nrestricting slip rule corrections to the period of up to 12 weeks after a decision becomes final;\nupdating legislative references to the victims’ code to reflect changes made by the 2024 Act;\nadjusting the deadline for applying for an oral hearing after a no-release decision, and for making reconsideration applications, for the time frames to run from the day the Board send the decision to the parties, rather than the day the parties receive the decision.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1011/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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