Offenders Probation and Parole Act Amendment Act 1964 (WA)

No. 34.] Offenders Probation and Parole. [1964.

OFFENDERS PROBATION AND

PAROLE.

13° Elizabeth II., No. XXXIV.

No. 34 of 1964.

AN ACT to amend the Offenders Probation and

Parole Act, 1963.

[ Assented to 3rd November, 1964.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Offenders

Probation and Parole Act Amendment Act, 1964.

(2) In this Act the Offenders Probation and Parole

Act, 1963, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Offenders Probation and Parole Act, 1963-1964.

1964.1 Offenders Probation and Parole. [No. 34. Act is amended by substituting for the words, "This Act" in line one, the passage, "Part II of this Act".	2.	Subsection (1) of section five of the principal unded.
3.

Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section thirty-four of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the word, "committed" in line seven, the word, "commuted".	S. 34
amended.

4. Section forty-seven of the principal Act is mended.

amended by adding the following subsections

(3) The Board may, by order in writing, direct that any person to whom paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section relates, be released from prison on parole at the time specified in the order, being a time that is after the person has served one half at least of the term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced; and the person shall be released accordingly.

(4) The provisions of this Act relating to parole and in particular the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section forty- one of this Act, with such modifications as the circumstances r e q u i r e, apply to a person released on parole pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.