Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006 (Vic)

Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006

Act No. 83/2006

table of provisions

Section  Page

1.Purpose

2.Commencement

3.Instructions and directions in relation to extended supervision order

4.New section 50 inserted

50.Transitional provision—Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006

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Endnotes

Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006

[Assented to 10 October 2006]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1.Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 so as to empower the Adult Parole Board to give an instruction or direction under section 16(2) of that Act requiring an offender to reside at premises on land that is within the perimeter of a prison but does not form part of the prison.

2.Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3.Instructions and directions in relation to extended supervision order

After section 16(3) of the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 insert—

"(3A)Without limiting sub-section (2) or (3)(a), an instruction or direction given by the Adult Parole Board under sub-section (2) as to where an offender may reside may require the offender to reside at premises that are situated on land that is within the perimeter of a prison (whether within or outside any walls erected on prison land) but does not form part of the prison.

(3B)An offender subject to an extended supervision order who is given an instruction or direction under sub-section (2) of a kind referred to in sub-section (3A) must be taken for the purposes of this Act to have been released in the community and to be residing in the community while residing in accordance with that instruction or direction.".

4.New section 50 inserted

After section 49 of the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 insert—

"50.Transitional provision—Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006

The amendments made to this Act by section 3 of the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006 apply with respect to an extended supervision order, irrespective of whether that order is made before, on or after the commencement of that section.".

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Endnotes

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 3 October 2006

Legislative Council: 4 October 2006

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 in relation to the instructions or directions that may be given by the Adult Parole Board under that Act and for other purposes."