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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 19AH

Failure to fix non - parole period or make recognizance release order

  (1)   Where a court fails to fix, or properly to fix, a non - parole period, or to make, or properly to make, a recognizance release order, under this Act:

  (a)   that failure does not affect the validity of any sentence imposed on a person; and

  (b)   the court must, at any time, on application by the Attorney - General, the Director of Public Prosecutions or the person, by order, set aside any non - parole period or recognizance release order that was not properly fixed or made and fix a non - parole period or make a recognizance release order under this Act.

  (2)   A court shall not, for the purposes of subsection   (1), be taken to have failed to fix a non - parole period in respect of a sentence or sentences in respect of which it has made a recognizance release order or to have failed to make a recognizance release order in respect of a sentence or sentences in respect of which it has fixed a non - parole period.

  (3)   Application under subsection   (1) to the court that has sentenced a person may be dealt with by that court whether or not it is constituted in the way in which it was constituted when the person was sentenced.


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