The functions of the Board are to:
- consider offenders for parole and, if appropriate, to direct offenders to be released on parole,
- consider offenders for home detention and, if appropriate, to direct offenders to continue serving their sentences by way of home detention,
- consider offenders for release on compassionate release and, if appropriate, to give direction for their release on compassionate grounds,
- set the conditions for:
- offenders released at their statutory release date,
- offenders released on parole or compassionate release,
- offenders detained on home detention, and
- offenders released at their final release date.
- consider and determine applications for:
- the variation and discharge of release conditions and detention conditions,
- the variation and discharge of conditions of an extended supervision order, and
- interim and final recall from parole, home detention, or compassionate release.
- make postponement orders in relation to offenders,
- make and review orders under section 107 of the Parole Act 2002,
- impose special conditions on offenders in respect of whom extended supervision orders have been made, and
- review decisions in accordance with section 67 of the Parole Act 2002,
- do anything else it is required to do under the Parole Act 2002 or any other enactment.