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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Correctional Services (Parole No 2) Amendment
Bill 2009
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Correctional Services Act 1982.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Correctional Services
Act 1982
3 Amendment of section 66—Automatic release on
parole for certain prisoners
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1 Transitional provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Correctional Services (Parole No 2)
Amendment Act 2009.
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
3—Amendment
of section 66—Automatic release on parole for certain
prisoners
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 against section 85 (being an offence
consisting of arson) or 85B of the Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935; or
Schedule
1—Transitional provision
(1) The amendment made by section 3 of this Act to section 66 of the
Correctional Services Act 1982 (the principal Act) is
intended to apply in respect of prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment
immediately before the commencement of this clause regardless of when the
prisoners were sentenced.
(2) However, if, before the commencement of this clause, the Board had,
under section 66 of the principal Act, ordered a prisoner to be released from
prison or home detention on parole, the prisoner is, subject to the provisions
of Part 6 Division 3 of that Act as in force immediately before that
commencement, to be released on parole.