Corrective Services Act 2006

This section applies to a prisoner who is serving a term of imprisonment for a serious violent offence.

The prisoner’s parole eligibility date is the day after the day on which the prisoner has served the lesser of—

80% of the prisoner’s term of imprisonment for the serious violent offence; or

15 years.

However, if the term of imprisonment for the serious violent offence was imposed under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 161R(2), the prisoner’s parole eligibility date is the day that is worked out by adding the relevant further period to the notional parole eligibility date fixed for the prisoner under subsection (2B).

The notional parole eligibility date is the day that would apply under subsection (2) if the term of imprisonment imposed on the prisoner under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 161R(2) consisted only of the base component of the sentence imposed under that section.

Despite subsections (2) and (2A), if a later parole eligibility date is fixed for the period of imprisonment under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, part 9, division 3, the prisoner’s parole eligibility date is the later date fixed under that division.

This section is subject to section 185.