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SENTENCING ACT 1989 - SECT 22B Definitions

This legislation has been repealed.

SENTENCING ACT 1989 - SECT 22B

Definitions

22B Definitions

(1) In this Subdivision:

"prisoner submissions" means submissions under this Subdivision to the Board by a prisoner.

"submissions" means victim submissions or prisoner submissions.

"victim" of a prisoner means:
(a) a victim of the offence for which the prisoner has been sentenced (or of any offence taken into account under section 21 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 when that sentence was passed), or
(b) a family representative of such a victim (if the victim is dead or under any incapacity or in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations).
"victim submissions" means submissions under this Subdivision to the Board by a victim.

"Victims Register" means the register kept under section 22M of the names of victims of prisoners who have requested that they be given notice under this Subdivision of the possible parole of the prisoner concerned.
(2) A victim of an offence for the purposes of the definition of victim in subsection (1) includes a person who suffers harm as a direct result of an act committed, or apparently committed, by another person in the course of a criminal offence. A person suffers harm if, as a result of such an act:
(a) the person suffers actual physical bodily harm, mental illness or nervous shock, or
(b) the person's property is deliberately taken, destroyed or damaged.