Part 4: Prisoners The Parole Board Section 73: Parole Board rules
Section 73(2) amends the power in section 239(5) of the 2003 Act to make procedural rules about how the Board conducts proceedings (the Parole Board Rules) to add the power to prescribe via the Rules that parole cases to be dealt with by Parole Board members with particular skills or experience.
	Subsection (3) allows the Secretary of State to make Parole Board Rules that will allow the delegation of functions usually exercised by Board members (including some judicial functions) to employees of the Board secretariat. The power cannot be used to make provision for staff to decide whether to release a prisoner; whether to terminate the licence of an IPP or DPP prisoner’s licence; or whether to reconsider or set aside a decision.