Prisons (Amendment) Act 1968 (NSW)

PRISONS (AMENDMENT) ACT.

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Act No. 8, 1968.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the forfeiture of entitlement of prisoners to remission of sentences; for this purpose to amend the Prisons (Amendment) Act, 1966; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th April, 1968.]

D E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows: —

Short title 1. ( 1 ) This Act may be cited as the “Prisons

mencement. (Amendment) Act, 1 9 6 8 ” .

( 2 )

Prisons {Amendment).

(2) This Act shall commence upon the day upon No. 8,1968

which the Prisons (Amendment) Act, 1966, commences.

2.     The Prisons (Amendment) Act, 1966, is amended in Amendment

paragraph (a) of section eight by omitting paragraph (c)

of subsection three to be inserted at the end of section §ec s

forty-one of the Prisons Act, 1952, as subsequently amended, (Further

and by inserting in lieu thereof the following paragraph :— of^ctNo”*

(c) the forfeiture of entitlement to remissions, by reference to any periods for which prisoners have been confined to cell pursuant to section 2 3 a or twenty-four of this Act or to any matters or things prescribed or as the Comptroller-General may determine.

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