Sentencing Act 1989 Regulation relating to parole orders for serious offenders (1994-307) [GG No 88 of 1.7.1994] (NSW)

1994—No. 307

SENTENCING ACT 1989—REGULATION

(Relating to parole orders for serious offenders)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 88 of l July 1994]

HIS Excellency the Governor. with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Sentencing Act 1989, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

J. P. HANNAFORD, M.L.C.,

Minister for Justice.

The Sentencing Regulation 1989 is amended by inserting after clause 4

the following clause:

Consideration of reports concerning serious offenders (s. 17)

4A. For the purposes of section 17 of the Act, the following reports are required to be furnished to the Board for consideration by it under subsection (1) (c) of that section in deciding whether to make a parole order for a serious offender:

(a) any report prepared for the purpose by or on behalf of:

(i)  a victim of an offence committed by the serious offender; or

(ii)  a family representative of such a victim (if the victim is dead or under any incapacity);

(b) any report prepared for the purpose by or on behalf of the Crown.

1994—No. 307

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to require the Offenders Review Board to consider any report from a victim of a serious offender (within the meaning of Part 10 of the Prisons Act 1952) or a family representative of such a victim (if the victim is dead or under any incapacity) and any report from the Crown when deciding whether to grant the serious offender parole.

The Regulation is made under sections 17 and 55 of the Sentencing Act 1989.