3.5 Amendment of bail conditions In terms of section 63A of the Criminal Procedure Act, Heads of Correctional Centres (HCC) may apply for the amendment of bail conditions on account of prevailing prison conditions including whether the centre is overcrowded. The JICS reports that this provision is grossly under- utilised. Parliament had in the past been informed that HCCs stopped making use of this provision, because courts summarily turned down applications made in terms of it. The DCS should provide the Committee with a report on the extent to which this provision has been used in the past 12 months, and how these applications were received by the courts.