Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) To avoid doubt, and without limiting the application of the amendments made by section 4 of the Corrections Amendment (Parole) Act 2018 in respect of applications for parole made on or after the commencement of those amendments—
(a) the amendments made by that Act apply to a prisoner convicted and sentenced as referred to in section 74AAA(1)(a), regardless of whether, before the commencement of those amendments—
(i) the prisoner had become eligible for parole; or
(ii) the prisoner had taken any steps to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole; or
(iii) the Board had begun any consideration of whether the prisoner should be granted parole; and
(b) the Board may, in its discretion, treat any steps taken by a prisoner to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole, being steps taken before the commencement of those amendments, as being an application lodged with the secretary of the Board under section 74AAA(4).
(2) To avoid doubt, and without limiting the application of the amendments made by section 5 of the Corrections Amendment (Parole) Act 2018 in respect of applications for parole made on or after the commencement of those amendments—
(a) the amendments made by that Act apply to the prisoner Craig Minogue referred to in section 74AB(1), regardless of whether, before the commencement of those amendments—
(i) the prisoner Craig Minogue had become eligible for parole; or
(ii) the prisoner Craig Minogue had taken any steps to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole; or
(iii) the Board had begun any consideration of whether the prisoner Craig Minogue should be granted parole; and
(b) the Board may, in its discretion, treat any steps taken by the prisoner Craig Minogue to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole, being steps taken before the commencement of those amendments, as being an application lodged with the secretary of the Board under section 74AB(2).
S. 128 inserted by No. 31/2017 s. 13.