South Australian Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (MISCELLANEOUS) AMENDMENT ACT 2009 (NO 63 OF 2009) - SECT 18

18—Amendment of section 66—Automatic release on parole for certain prisoners

        (1)         Section 66(2)—after paragraph (a) insert:

            (ab)         a prisoner if any part of the imprisonment for which the prisoner was sentenced is in respect of an offence of personal violence; or

            (ac)         a prisoner if any part of the imprisonment for which the prisoner was sentenced is in respect of an offence against section 85 (being an offence consisting of arson) or 85B of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 ; or

        (2)         Section 66—after subsection (2) insert:

        (3)         In this section—

"offence of personal violence" means any of the following offences (including a substantially similar offence against a corresponding previous enactment or the law of another place):

            (a)         an offence against the person under Part 3 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 ;

            (b)         a home invasion;

            (c)         an offence of robbery or aggravated robbery;

            (d)         a conspiracy to commit, or an attempt to commit, an offence referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

            (e)         an offence that is committed in circumstances in which the offender uses violence or a threat of violence for the purpose of committing the offence, in the course of committing the offence, or for the purpose of escaping from the scene of the offence.