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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
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:
This Act may be cited as the Correctional Services (Parole) Amendment
Act 2008.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the date of
assent.
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.