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Part 8 · Employment Preparation Scheme

88. Prisoner to bear costs of prescribed expenses incurred when released on employment preparation order

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Last amended by an amending law of 2026.

A prisoner released on an employment preparation order for employment preparation must bear the costs of the following expenses incurred by the prisoner when released on that order:

(a)

the costs of the prisoner’s meals incurred outside the limits of any prison for the duration of the employment preparation order;

(b)

the costs of the prisoner’s medical expenses incurred outside the limits of any prison for the duration of the employment preparation order;

(c)

the costs of any educational or occupational training programme, or any other activity for the purpose of facilitating the prisoner to be gainfully employed (each called in this regulation the specified activity) that the prisoner is required to participate in as specified in the employment preparation order;

(d)

the costs of the prisoner’s transport between any of the following places:

(i)

the prison from which the prisoner is released for employment preparation;

(ii)

the prisoner’s place of employment specified in the employment preparation order;

(iii)

the place (as specified in the employment preparation order) where the prisoner is required to participate in the specified activity;

(iv)

the prisoner’s place of residence;

(v)

any other place specified in the prisoner’s employment preparation order;

(e)

any other costs of the prisoner’s daily living expenses incurred outside the limits of any prison for the duration of the employment preparation order.

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Part 8A

Release of Prisoner Subject to Spp or Sepp

Part 9

Persons Detained for Safe Custody

Part 10

Treatment of Prisoners Awaiting Capital Punishment