South Australian Numbered Acts

CRIMINAL LAW (HIGH RISK OFFENDERS) ACT 2015 (NO 13 OF 2015) - SECT 4

4—Interpretation

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

"CE" means the chief executive of the administrative unit of the Public Service that is, under a Minister, responsible for the administration of the Correctional Services Act 1982

;

"community corrections officer" means an officer or employee of the administrative unit of the Public Service that is, under a Minister, responsible for the administration of the Correctional Services Act 1982

whose duties include the supervision of offenders in the community;

"continuing detention order"—see section 18(2)

;

"detainee" means a person who is detained as a result of being declared liable to supervision under Part 8A of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

;

"extended supervision order" means an order under this Act made by the Supreme Court for the supervision of a high risk offender;

"government custody" means custody as a prisoner or detainee;

"high risk offender"—see section 5

;

"interim supervision order"—see section 9

;

"Parole Board" means the Parole Board of South Australia;

"prisoner" has the same meaning as in the Correctional Services Act 1982

;

"relevant expiry date" means—

            (a)         in relation to a high risk offender who is serving a sentence of imprisonment (whether the offender is in prison or on release on home detention or parole)—

                  (i)         if the offender is not serving a sentence of life imprisonment—the date on which the term, or terms, of imprisonment to which the offender was sentenced expire; and

                  (ii)         if the offender is serving a sentence of life imprisonment—the date on which the sentence of imprisonment will be taken to have been wholly satisfied; and

            (b)         in relation to a high risk offender who is subject to an existing extended supervision order—the date on which the extended supervision order expires;

"respondent"—see section 7(1)

;

"serious offence of violence" has the same meaning as in section 83D(1) of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

;

"serious sexual offence" has the same meaning as in section 33(1) of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act 1988

;

"serious sexual offender" means a person convicted (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) of a serious sexual offence;

"serious violent offender" means a person convicted (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) of a serious offence of violence;

"supervision order" means an extended supervision order or an interim supervision order;

"youth" has the same meaning as in the Young Offenders Act 1993

.