Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If not defined in
this Act words and expressions in this Act have the same definitions as in the
Sentencing Act 1995 and in particular, in Part 13 of that Act.
(2) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears —
Board means the Prisoners Review Board;
CEO means the chief executive officer of the
Public Sector agency principally assisting the Minister administering
Part 8 in its administration;
community corrections activities are activities
approved as such under section 85;
community corrections centre means a place
declared to be a community corrections centre under section 84;
community corrections officer means a person
appointed as a community corrections officer under section 98 and
includes an honorary CCO;
community order means a community based order or
an intensive supervision order imposed under the Sentencing Act 1995 ;
conditional suspended imprisonment means
conditional suspended imprisonment imposed under Part 12 Division 1
of the Sentencing Act 1995 ;
departmental staff means the people appointed or
engaged under section 98 and the people authorised to work as unpaid
volunteers under section 99;
early release order means —
(a) a
parole order; or
(b) a
re-entry release order;
Governor’s pleasure detainee
means —
(a) a
person in, or regarded as being in, strict or safe custody by virtue of an
order made under the repealed section 282 of The Criminal Code ; or
(b) a
person subject to a sentence of detention imposed under section 279(5)(b)
of The Criminal Code ;
honorary CCO means a person appointed as a
community corrections officer under section 98(1)(b);
parole order means an order made under Part 3
that a prisoner be released on parole and includes a parole order made for the
purposes of section 72 or 73;
parole order (unsupervised) means a parole order
that specifies that it is unsupervised;
prisoner means —
(a) a
person sentenced to a fixed term, whether a parole term or not; or
(b) a
person sentenced to a life imprisonment; or
(c) a
person sentenced to indefinite imprisonment; or
(d) a
Governor’s pleasure detainee;
re-entry release order means a re-entry release
order made under Part 4 and includes a re-entry release order made for
the purposes of section 72;
release means release from custody;
release considerations relating to a prisoner, has
the meaning given to that term by section 5A;
re-socialisation programme means a programme of a
prescribed kind that can be provided under the Prisons Act 1981 to
address the following factors insofar as they are relevant to equipping a
particular prisoner for re-entry into the general community —
(a)
education;
(b)
employment;
(c) drug
and alcohol use;
(d)
mental and physical health;
(e)
attitudes and social control;
(f)
institutionalisation and life skills;
(g)
housing;
(h)
financial support and debt;
(i)
family and community networks;
(j) any
other prescribed factor;
sentence includes order;
serious offence means an offence of the kind set
out in Schedule 2, other than such of those offences as have been
prescribed by the regulations as not to be a serious offence;
victim of an offence means —
(a) a
person who has suffered injury, loss or damage as a direct result of the
offence, whether or not that injury, loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable
by the offender; or
(b)
where the offence resulted in a death, any member of the immediate family of
the deceased;
victim’s submission has the meaning given to
that term by section 5C(1);
work and development order means a work and
development order made under Part 4 of the
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 .
(3) In this Act these
abbreviations are used —
CCO for community corrections officer;
CSI for conditional suspended imprisonment;
RRO for re-entry release order;
WDO for work and development order.
[Section 4 amended by No. 27 of 2004
s. 10; No. 41 of 2006 s. 4; No. 65 of 2006 s. 37; No.
29 of 2008 s. 39(2).]
[Section 4. Modifications to be applied in order
to give effect to Cross-border Justice Act 2008: section altered 1 Nov 2009.
See endnote 1M.]
[Heading amended by No. 41 of 2006
s. 5.]