Corrections and Conditional Release Act (S.C. 1992, c. 20)

Marginal note:Decision — institutional head

• 37.3 (1) The institutional head shall determine, in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 96(g), whether an inmate should remain in a structured intervention unit

  • (a) as soon as practicable after a registered health care professional recommends under section 37.2, for health reasons, that the inmate not remain in the unit;

  • (b) within the period that begins on the day on which the determination under subsection 29.01(2) is made and that ends on the expiry of the period of 30 days that begins on the first day on which the inmate is confined in the unit; and

  • (c) as soon as practicable in any of the prescribed circumstances.

• Marginal note:Conditions of confinement

  (2) As soon as practicable after the registered health care professional referred to in section 37.2 has recommended, for health reasons, that the conditions of confinement be altered, the institutional head shall determine whether the inmate’s conditions of confinement in the structured intervention unit should be altered.

• Marginal note:Visit to the inmate

  (3) Before making a determination under this section, the institutional head shall visit the inmate.

• Marginal note:Record

  (4) The institutional head shall maintain a record indicating the circumstances of every instance in which, because of security requirements, a visit was not face to face or took place through a cell door hatch.

• Marginal note:Reasons

  (5) No later than one working day after the day on which he or she makes a determination under this section, the institution head shall orally notify the inmate of the determination as well as the reasons for it and no later than two working days after the day on which the determination was made, the institutional head shall provide the inmate with those reasons in writing.