SENTENCING ACT 1989 - SECT 8 Information about minimum or fixed term

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SENTENCING ACT 1989 - SECT 8

8 Information about minimum or fixed term

(1) When setting a minimum or fixed term, a court is required to specify the day on which the term commences or commenced and the day on which the prisoner will be eligible to be released from prison or on parole.

(2) If the prisoner is sentenced to more than one term of imprisonment or is already subject to a term of imprisonment, the court is required to specify the earliest day on which the prisoner would be eligible to be released from prison or on parole.

(3) In specifying a day under this section, the court may rely on the information then available to the court.

(4) The purpose of this section is to require the court to give information about the likely effect of a sentence.