Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 50

50 .         WRO: nature of

        (1)         A WRO is an order that on a release date specified in the order a prisoner is to be released if he or she gives a written undertaking that while the WRO is in force he or she will comply with —

            (a)         the standard obligations in section 51;

            (b)         any additional requirements imposed by the Board under section 52; and

            (c)         section 76.

        (2)         It is a condition of every WRO that if the prisoner commits an offence (in this State or elsewhere) while the WRO is in force, then —

            (a)         if the prisoner is sentenced to imprisonment for the offence, the WRO shall be cancelled; or

            (b)         in any other case, the WRO may be cancelled.

        (3)         A WRO ceases to be in force when the period of the WRO ends, or when it is cancelled, whichever happens first.

        (4)         The period of a WRO is the period —

            (a)         beginning on the day when the prisoner is released under the WRO; and

            (b)         ending on the first to occur of —

                  (i)         the release date in a parole order made in respect of the prisoner;

                  (ii)         the date when under section 92 or 95 of the Sentencing Act 1995 , the prisoner must be released.

        (5)         A prisoner who is released under a WRO is nevertheless still subject to the sentence or sentences of imprisonment to which the WRO relates.