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CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (PAROLE NO 2) AMENDMENT BILL 2009

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:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Correctional Services (Parole No 2) Amendment Act 2009.

2—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

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—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.

 


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