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CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 185A

185A Parole eligibility date for particular prisoners granted exceptional circumstances parole

(1) This section applies to a prisoner if—

(a) whether before or after the commencement of this section (the commencement), a date for the prisoner's release on parole in relation to the prisoner's period of imprisonment (the parole release date) was or is fixed under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 160B(3); and
(b) on or after the commencement but before the parole release date, the prisoner is granted exceptional circumstances parole in relation to the same period of imprisonment.

(2) For this Act, the prisoner's parole release date becomes the prisoner's parole eligibility date in relation to the same period of imprisonment.

(3) Any entitlement or expectation the prisoner had to be released on parole on the parole release date under a court ordered parole order is extinguished.

(4) This section does not affect the fact that a parole release date was fixed for the prisoner's period of imprisonment for the purposes of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992.



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