Sentence Administration Amendment Regulations 2017 (WA)

11(2 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 7 February 2017

JUSTICE

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Sentence Administration Act 2003

Sentence Administration Amendment

Regulations 2017

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette (gazettal day);
(b)	regulation 4 — on the day after gazettal day;
(c)	the rest of the regulations — when the Sentencing Legislation Amendment Act 2016 section 25 comes into
operation.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Sentence Administration Amendment
Regulations 2017.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

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3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Sentence Administration
Regulations 2003.

4.            Regulation 3D amended

In regulation 3D in the description of the variable "y":

(a) in paragraph (i) delete "sentence described in column 1 of the Table to section 12A of the Act—" and insert:

Schedule 3 prisoner -

(b) in paragraph (ii) delete "fixed term sentence -" and insert:

prisoner sentenced to a fixed term -

5. Part 2A inserted
After regulation 5 insert:

Part 2A - Post-sentence supervision orders

SA. Prescribed hours of community corrections
activities for PSSO (s. 74G)

(1) For the purposes of section 74G(h) of the Act, the
prescribed number of hours of community corrections
activities is -

(a) in the case of an offender engaged full-time in gainful employment, vocational training or gratuitous work —6 hours; and

(b)	in the case of an offender not so engaged -
12 hours.

(2) The CEO may determine any question in relation to the

extent to which an offender is engaged full-time or

otherwise.

(3) A determination by the CEO under subregulation (2) is

final.

SB.	Commissioner of Police may be notified about suspected breach of PSSO
If the CEO has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a supervised offender has breached a PSSO, the CEO may notify the Commissioner of Police of the suspected breach.

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.