Offenders Probation and Parole Amendment Act 1990 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

OFFENDERS PROBATION AND

PAROLE AMENDMENT ACT

No. 5 of 1990

AN ACT to amend the Offenders Probation and Parole Act 1963

and for connected purposes.

[Assented to 12 July 1990.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Offenders Probation and Parole

Amendment Act 1990.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

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Principal Act

3. In this Act the Offenders Probation and Parole Act 1963* is

referred to as the principal Act.

[*Reprinted as at 24 August 1988 and amended by Acts Nos. 87 of

1982 and 34, 38, 49 and 70 of 1988.]

Section 20A amended

4. Section 20A (1) of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by repealing the definition of "advisory committee"; and
(b)	in the definition of "approved work" by deleting "an advisory committee" and substituting the following-

" the chief executive officer ".

Section 20R repealed and a section substituted

5. Section 20R of the principal Act is repealed and the following

section is substituted

Chief executive officer may declare approved work

20R. The chief executive officer may declare work to be

approved work for the purposes of this Part. ".

Section 20S amended

6. Section 20S of the principal Act is amended

(a) in paragraph (g) by deleting the semi-colon and substituting a full stop; and

(b) by deleting paragraph (h).

Section 23 amended

7. Section 23 (3) of the principal Act is amended by deleting "or"

after paragraph (a).

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Savings and transitional

8. Any declaration of approved work made under section 20R of the principal Act as in force before the day that this Act comes into operation, and in force before that day, continues in force after that day and may be varied or revoked by the chief executive officer as though it were a declaration of approved work made under section 20R of the principal Act as enacted by section 5 of this Act.