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SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 117

Transitional provisions

    (1)     This Act applies to any sentence imposed after the commencement of this section, irrespective of when the offence was committed.

    (2)     A person in respect of whom a sentence is in force immediately before the commencement of this section continues to be subject to the requirements of that sentence in all respects as if this Act had not been passed but that sentence may be cancelled or varied and any failure to comply with it may be dealt with under this Act as if it were a sentence imposed after the commencement of this section.

    (3)     The regulations may contain provisions of a transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.

    (4)     For the purposes of this section a sentence imposed by an appellate court after the commencement of this section on setting aside a sentencing order made before that commencement must be taken to have been imposed at the time the original sentencing order was made.

S. 117A inserted by No. 10/2005 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 2).



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