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Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)

Chapter VI : Community Corrections

55. Commencement

 

1) Community corrections may not commence without a warrant or appropriate order being lodged at the community corrections office.

 

2) At every community corrections office the following must be recorded in a register:
a) Information about the identity of the person subject to community corrections;
b) the authority for the imposition of community corrections;
c) the conditions of the community corrections order; and
d) the date and hour of commencement and expiry of the sentence or period of community corrections.

 

3)
a) At the commencement of community corrections the person concerned must be informed in writing of-
i) the conditions which will be imposed on him or her in a form and language which will enable him or her to understand what he or she is expected to do or to refrain from doing;
ii) the channels of communication for complaints and requests.
b) If the person is illiterate, a correctional official must explain this written information through an interpreter if necessary.
c) The person concerned must confirm that the information has been understood.

 

4) At the commencement of the community corrections, the person concerned-
a) must allow his or her identity and other particulars to be established in the manner and to the same extent as required in section 28 in respect of an inmate; and
b) may be required to submit to a medical examination to determine physical and mental fitness with reference to the conditions imposed.