Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled Report No. 7, 57th Parliament - Corrective Services (Promoting Safety) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 on Friday 12 April 2024.  The Bill was passed in the Legislative Assembly, with amendment, on 21 May 2024.

About the Bill 

On 13 February 2024, Hon Nikki Boyd MP, Minister for Fire and Disaster Recovery and Minister for Corrective Services, introduced the Corrective Services (Promoting Safety) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Community Safety and Legal Affairs Committee for detailed consideration.   

The main objectives of the Bill are to: 

• enhance the Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) Victims;
• require representation for victims on the Parole Board Queensland;
• strengthen powers to respond to abuse of prisoner communication channels;
• enable the use of certain police powers for reportable child sex offenders being supervised under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003 (DPSOA);
• increase the penalty for possession of a gel blaster on corrective services land;
• protect the use of victim and intelligence information to support effective decision making;
• clarify the authority for corrective services officers to use body-worn cameras while in the community;
• prescribing search requirements to accommodate diverse prisoner needs;
• update legislative requirements to support the independence, diversity and efficient administration of the Board;
• enable QCS to lawfully detain prisoners from Norfolk Island in line with the Queensland Government’s commitments under the Intergovernmental Partnership Agreement on State Service Delivery to Norfolk Island; and
• other minor and technical issues to support the continued safe operations of corrective services.

For more in-depth information on the above please refer to the explanatory notes for the Bill.

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice can be accessed under the Related Publications tab.

Call for submissions

The closing date for written submissions was Thursday 29 February 2024 at 4:00pm. Submissions can be accessed under the “View submissions” tab above.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has scheduled a public hearing on Monday 18 March 2024 and a public briefing on the Bill by officers of Queensland Corrective Services on Friday 22 March 2024. See timeline below for further information.

Timeline