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In forceCourt’s functions in relation to victim impact statement
Part 3Matters preliminary to sentencing
Division 4Information about victims etc.
26 Court’s functions in relation to victim impact statement
(1)
A court may make a written victim impact statement available to the prosecutor and to the offender, on such conditions as it thinks fit.
(2)
A court may rule as inadmissible the whole or any part of a victim impact statement.
(3)
A court must, after imposing a sentence of imprisonment on an offender, make available to the Prisoners Review Board a copy of any victim impact statement given to the court under section 24.
[Section 26 amended: No. 45 of 2016 s. 55.]
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