Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1996 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1996

No. 14 of 1996

An Act to amend the Remand Centres Act 1976

[Notified in ACT Gazette S71: 1 May 1996]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1996.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  Section 4 commences—

(a)on the day on which, but immediately after, the provisions of the Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1995 (other than sections 1 and 2) commence; or

(b)on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette;

whichever is the later.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Remand Centres Act 1976.1

Persons who may be detained

4.  Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (m) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(m)a person convicted by a court in the Territory and sentenced to a period of imprisonment, being a person—

(i)who is not granted bail or liable to be detained for any other cause;

(ii)in respect of whose conviction a notice of appeal has been filed; and

(iii)in respect of whom a court has made an order or issued a warrant for committal to a remand centre;”.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1995.  See also Acts Nos. 3 and 40, 1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 28 March 1996]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1996