New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 580G

580G Abolition of imprisonment with light or hard labour

(1) The punishments of imprisonment with light labour and imprisonment with hard labour are abolished.

(2) Any sentence of imprisonment with light labour or imprisonment with hard labour that was in force, immediately before the commencement of this section, is to be taken to be a sentence of imprisonment only and is to continue to have effect as such for the remainder of the term for which the sentence of imprisonment with light labour or imprisonment with hard labour would, but for this section, have had effect.