The question whether the Court of Criminal Appeal has jurisdiction to hear an appeal from an original sentence after the Parole Board has revoked a periodic detention order and converted it to full-time imprisonment was raised but left open for determination by a three-judge bench. A sentencing judge's failure to give express reasons for declining to set a non-parole period under s 45(2) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 does not invalidate the sentence where the matter was impliedly considered and s 45(4) applies.
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