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CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (PAROLE) AMENDMENT BILL 2008

South Australia

Correctional Services (Parole) Amendment Bill 2008

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Correctional Services Act 1982.


Contents

Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Correctional Services Act 1982
4 Amendment of section 66—Automatic release on parole for certain prisoners


The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Correctional Services (Parole) Amendment Act 2008.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation 3 months after the date of assent.

3—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Correctional Services Act 1982

4—Amendment of section 66—Automatic release on parole for certain prisoners

(1) Section 66(2)—after paragraph (a) insert—

(ab) a prisoner if any part of the imprisonment for which the prisoner was sentenced is in respect of an offence of personal violence; or

(2) Section 66—after subsection (2) insert—

(3) In this section—

offence of personal violence means any of the following offences (including a substantially similar offence against a corresponding previous enactment or the law of another place):

(a) an offence against the person under Part 3 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935;

(b) a home invasion;

(c) an offence of robbery or aggravated robbery;

(d) a conspiracy to commit, or an attempt to commit, an offence referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

(e) an offence that is committed in circumstances in which the offender uses violence or a threat of violence for the purpose of committing the offence, in the course of committing the offence, or for the purpose of escaping from the scene of the offence.

 


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