Parole eligibility date for prisoner detained for a period directed by a judge under Criminal Law Amendment Act 1945, pt 3
183 Parole eligibility date for prisoner detained for a period directed by a judge under Criminal Law Amendment Act 1945, pt 3
This section applies to a prisoner who is being detained, for an offence, in an institution for a period as directed by a judge under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1945, part 3.
The prisoner’s parole eligibility date is the day after the day on which the prisoner has been detained for half the fixed period.
However, subsection (2B) applies if—
the offence for which the prisoner is being detained is a prescribed offence committed with the circumstance of aggravation stated in the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 161Q; and
the prisoner has been sentenced for the offence under section 161R(2) of that Act.
The prisoner’s parole eligibility date is the day that is worked out by adding the relevant further period to the parole eligibility date that would otherwise apply to the prisoner under subsection (2).
Despite subsections (2) and (2B), if a later parole eligibility date is fixed for the prisoner 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.
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