The Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld) empowers sentencing judges to fix a parole release date within the period of an activated suspended sentence forming part of a combined sentence. Whether it is appropriate to fix the parole release date after the offender has served the whole of the activated suspended sentence depends on the facts of each case, including the seriousness of the breach. Sentencing judges must give reasons for fixing a parole release date past the halfway point of the head sentence.
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