Parole (Amendment) Act 1988 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Parole (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 3 of 1988

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 3 March 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts and Territories
for and on behalf of the Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Parole Ordinance 1976

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Parole (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1

Interpretation

2.  Section 5 of the Parole Ordinance 19762 is amended—

(a)by omitting “or” from paragraph (a) of the definition of “non-parole period” in subsection (1); and

(b)by adding at the end of the definition of “non-parole period” in subsection (1) the following word and paragraph:

“or(c) where a period referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) is subject to reduction or remission by virtue of section 5 of the Removal of Prisoners (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1968—the period equal to the first-mentioned period less the period of reduction or remission to which that first-mentioned period is subject;”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 March 1988.

2. No. 29, 1976 as amended by No. 46, 1978; Nos. 1, 83 and 91, 1982; No. 67, 1985; No. 73, 1986.