New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT 1957 - SECT 10

10 When person ceases to be an habitual criminal

(1) In the case of an habitual criminal to whom a licence is granted under section 7, the habitual criminal shall if, during the period endorsed on such licence:

(a) a warrant committing the habitual criminal to appear at a sitting of the Supreme Court or the District Court has not been issued under subsection (2) of section 8, and the habitual criminal has not been convicted on indictment, or

(b) such a warrant has been so issued or the habitual criminal has been so convicted, but the habitual criminal has not been sentenced under the provisions of subsection (5) of the said section 8, or

(c) the habitual criminal has been sentenced under the provisions of the said subsection (5), but the term of imprisonment imposed under such sentence did not extend beyond such period,

cease upon the expiration of such period to be an habitual criminal.

(2) In the case of any other habitual criminal, the habitual criminal shall cease to be an habitual criminal upon the expiration of the habitual criminal's sentence as an habitual criminal.