When sentencing for an offence committed during parole, the operation of ss 209 and 211 of the Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld) must be taken into account to correctly calculate the expiry date of the prior sentence, as time on parole after the commission of the new offence does not count as time served. The general practice of fixing parole eligibility at the one-third mark for a drug trafficker who pleads guilty may be adjusted upward where the offence was committed while on parole.
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