South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (COURTS EFFICIENCY REFORMS) ACT 2012 (NO 43 OF 2012) - SECT 13

13—Amendment of section 9A—Rectification of sentencing errors

        (1)         Section 9A(1)—delete subsection (1) and substitute:

        (1)         A court that imposes, or purports to impose, a sentence on a defendant, or a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction, may, on its own initiative or on application by the Director of Public Prosecutions or the defendant, make such orders as the court is satisfied are required to rectify an error of a technical nature made by the sentencing court in imposing, or purporting to impose, the sentence, or to supply a deficiency or remove an ambiguity in the sentencing order.

        (2)         Section 9A(2)—delete "an application" and substitute:

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