Eligibility for parole
9G Eligibility for parole
If a court sentences an offender to a fixed term of imprisonment under section 9D(3) or (4), the court must not make a parole eligibility order in respect of that term of imprisonment.
Subsection (1) overrides section 89.
Subsection (4) applies if —
an offender is convicted of murder; and
section 9D(3) applies to the offender in respect of that offence; and
the court sentences the offender to life imprisonment for that offence; and
under section 90(1)(a), the court sets a minimum period that the offender must serve before being eligible for release on parole.
If this subsection applies, the court must set a minimum period of at least 20 years.
Subsection (4) overrides section 90(1)(a).
[Section 9G inserted: No. 49 of 2012 s. 181(2); amended: No. 45 of 2016 s. 62.]
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