| 12. (1) Provincial boards - The Lieutenant governor in Council of a province may appoint a Board of Parole for that province to exercise parole jurisdiction, in accordance with this Act and the regulations, in respect of inmates detained in a provincial institution, other than inmates sentenced to life imprisonment as a minimum punishment, inmates in respect of whom sentences of death have been commuted to life imprisonment or inmates sentenced to detention in a penitentiary for an indeterminate period. |
| (2) Ontario and British Columbia - A provincial parole board for Ontario or British Columbia may, in addition to its other duties, exercise the same jurisdiction as a provincial parole board appointed pursuant to subsection (1). |
| (3) Inmate moving to another province - Where an inmate who has been granted parole by a provincial parole board moves to another province, the provincial parole board of that other province may, with the consent of the board that granted the parole, exercise jurisdiction over that inmate. |
| (4) Idem - An inmate who is paroled by a provincial parole board and who moves to a province in which no such board has been appointed falls under the jurisdiction of the National Parole Board thereafter until the inmate again moves into a province for which a provincial parole board has been appointed whereupon subsection (3) again applies to the inmate. |
| [1976- 77 c53 s22] |
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