Reports during the transitional period: pre‑1996 prisoners
124 Reports during the transitional period: pre‑1996 prisoners
If a report given during the transitional period about a pre‑1996 prisoner was not given in accordance with a former transitional provision that permitted or required a person to give a report about the prisoner then —
each provision of the Sentence Administration Act 1995 2 that would have permitted or required a person to give a report about the prisoner had the prisoner been sentenced on or after 4 November 1996 and before 31 August 2003 is taken to have applied, and the former transitional provision is taken not to have applied, to and in respect of the prisoner during that period; and
each provision of this Act that would have permitted or required a person to give a report about the prisoner had the prisoner been sentenced on or after 31 August 2003 and before commencement is taken to have applied, and the former transitional provision is taken not to have applied, to and in respect of the prisoner during that period.
[Section 124 inserted: No. 45 of 2016 s. 14.]
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