(1) Subject to this Sub-Part, the functions of the Board are—
(a) to receive and consider applications for parole and to grant or reject such applications;
(b) to issue summons requiring the appearance before the Board of any parolee or applicant for parole or such witnesses as the Board may consider necessary for the purposes of this Sub-Part;
(c) to revoke or suspend parole in respect of any parolee;
(d) to review the cases of inmates serving life sentences or inmates in respect of whom a sentence of death has been commuted to life imprisonment, for the purpose of determining whether or not to grant parole to such inmates;
(e) to make reports to the Minister, at such intervals as the Minister may prescribe, on the operation of the provisions of this Sub-Part; and
(f) to carry out such other functions as the Minister may direct as being, in his or her opinion, necessary for the purposes of this Sub-Part.