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SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 9G

9G .         Eligibility for parole

        (1)         If a court sentences an offender to a fixed term of imprisonment under section 9D(3) or (4), the court must not make a parole eligibility order in respect of that term of imprisonment.

        (2)         Subsection (1) overrides section 89.

        (3)         Subsection (4) applies if —

            (a)         an offender is convicted of murder; and

            (b)         section 9D(3) applies to the offender in respect of that offence; and

            (c)         the court sentences the offender to life imprisonment for that offence; and

            (d)         under section 90(1)(a), the court sets a minimum period that the offender must serve before being eligible for release on parole.

        (4)         If this subsection applies, the court must set a minimum period of at least 20 years.

        (5)         Subsection (4) overrides section 90(1)(a).

        [Section 9G inserted: No. 49 of 2012 s. 181(2); amended: No. 45 of 2016 s. 62.]



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