New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 3

3 Objects and application of Act

(1) The object of this Act is to protect the community by providing for the preventive detention (by order of the Supreme Court made on the application of the Director of Public Prosecutions) of Gregory Wayne Kable.

(2) In the construction of this Act, the need to protect the community is to be given paramount consideration.

(3) This Act authorises the making of a detention order against Gregory Wayne Kable and does not authorise the making of a detention order against any other person.

(4) For the purposes of this section, Gregory Wayne Kable is the person of that name who was convicted in New South Wales on 1 August 1990 of the manslaughter of his wife, Hilary Kable.