Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) For the purposes
of section 93(1), a prisoner serving a parole term for a prescribed offence is
eligible to be released on parole when he or she has served the greater of
—
(a) the
mandatory minimum sentence applicable to that offence; or
(b) the
period that, under section 93(1), he or she would be required to serve before
being eligible to be released on parole if the offence were not a prescribed
offence.
(2) Subsection (3)
applies to a prisoner if —
(a) the
prisoner is serving 2 or more parole terms; and
(b)
those parole terms are to be aggregated under section 94; and
(c) 2 or
more of those parole terms are for prescribed offences.
(3) If this subsection
applies to a prisoner then, for the purposes of section 93(1), the prisoner is
eligible to be released on parole when he or she has served the greater of
—
(a) the
aggregate of the mandatory minimum sentences applicable to each of the
prescribed offences that he or she is serving; or
(b) the
period that, under sections 93(1) and 94, he or she would be required to serve
before being eligible to be released on parole if the offences were not
prescribed offences.
(4) If a parole term
was imposed before the Sentencing Legislation Amendment Act 2014 Part 2 comes
into operation, this Division and the Sentence Administration Act 2003 Part 3
Division 3 apply to and in relation to that parole term as if the Sentencing
Legislation Amendment Act 2014 Part 2 had not been enacted.
[Section 95A inserted: No. 6 of 2014 s. 6.]