New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (DETENTION CENTRES) ACT 1987 - SECT 49

49 Date of release on parole of serious offenders

(1) In determining when a juvenile offender who has been convicted of an offence involving violence should be released, the Children's Court must take into account the potential trauma to a victim and the victim's family if the offender is released on the anniversary of the commission of the offence against the victim.

(2) The following offences are
"offences involving violence" for the purposes of this section--

(a) a prescribed sexual offence within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 ,

(b) an offence under sections 27- 30 of the Crimes Act 1900 (attempts to murder),

(c) an offence under section 33 of the Crimes Act 1900 (wounding etc with intent to do grievous bodily harm or resist arrest),

(d) an offence under section 35 (1) or (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (infliction of grievous bodily harm),

(e) an offence under sections 86-91 of the Crimes Act 1900 (abduction or kidnapping),

(f) an offence under sections 94- 98 of the Crimes Act 1900 (robbery),

(g) an offence the elements of which include the commission of, or an intention to commit, an offence referred to in any of the above paragraphs,

(h) an offence that, at the time it was committed, was an offence involving violence for the purposes of this section,

(i) any other offence that involves an act of actual or threatened violence that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.