Victorian Current Acts

CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 129

    (1)     Without limiting the application of the amendments made by Division 2 of Part 5 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2018 in respect of applications for parole that are made on or after the commencement of those amendments, those amendments also apply—

        (a)     to an application for parole that is made, but has not been determined, before the commencement of those amendments; and

        (b)     to a prisoner 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.

    (2)     Section 77 as amended by section 124 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2018 applies in respect of a parole order in force on or after the commencement of section 124 of that Act even if the parole order is made before that commencement.

    (3)     Section 77A as amended by section 125 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2018 applies in respect of a parole order in force on or after the commencement of section 125 of that Act even if the parole order is made before that commencement.

S. 130 inserted by No. 27/2018 s. 351(Sch.  4 cl. 19).