To amend the Correctional Services Act, 1998, so as to insert, substitute, amend or delete certain definitions; to make further provision for the manner in which inmates are detained and the manner in which correctional centres are managed; to authorise the National Council to determine, under certain conditions, the period before an offender may be placed on parole; to make further provision for matters relating to Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards and the Judicial Inspectorate; to provide for compliance management and monitoring of relevant prescriptions, a Departmental Investigation Unit and a unit dealing with the institution of disciplinary procedures; to further regulate matters relating to officials of the Department of Correctional Services and the powers of the Minister to make regulations; and to provide for matters connected therewith.