Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Unless the Queensland board makes a requirement under subsection (2), a prisoner's agent may, with the Queensland board's leave, appear before the Queensland board to make representations in support of the prisoner's application for a parole order that may be heard and decided by the Queensland board.
(2) The Queensland board may require a regional board—
(a) to hear a prisoner's, or prisoner's agent's, representations in support of the prisoner's application for a parole order that may be heard and decided by the Queensland board; and
(b) to make a recommendation to the Queensland board on the prisoner's suitability for parole.
(3) A prisoner or the prisoner's agent may, with a regional board's leave, appear before the regional board to make representations in support of the prisoner's application for a parole order that may be heard and decided by the regional board.
(4) The chairperson of a regional board may require a corrective services officer present at a board meeting to leave and remain out of the hearing of the meeting for the time the chairperson directs.
(5) If a prisoner appearing before a regional board insults a member of the board or disrupts the board's proceedings, the prisoner's leave to appear before the board may be cancelled.
(6) This section does not stop a parole board deciding an application for a parole order if the prisoner or the prisoner's agent fails to appear before the board.
(7) In this section—
appear, before a parole board, means—
(a) appear by using a contemporaneous communication link between the board and the prisoner or the prisoner's agent; or
(b) if the person appearing is a prisoner with a special need—appear personally.