Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

SENTENCING (CRIME OF MURDER) AND PAROLE REFORM ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Part 1 - preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purposes

           Part 2 - amendment of criminal code

   4.      Repeal and substitution
   164.    Punishment of murder

           Part 3 - amendments of sentencing act

   5.      Principal Act
   6.      Fixing of non-parole period by sentencing court
   7.      New section
   53A.    Non-parole periods for crime of murder
   8.      Fixing of non-parole period otherwise than by sentencing court
   9.      Fixing of new non-parole period in respect of multiple sentences

           Part 4 - amendments of parole of prisoners act

   10.     Principal Act
   11.     Interpretation
   12.     Repeal and substitution
           3B. Membership of Board
           3C. Chairman of Board
           3D. Appointment of persons to act as appointed members
           3E. Resignation of appointed members
           3EA. Removal from office of appointed members
           3EB. Constitution of Board for different matters
   13.     Meetings of Board
   14.     New sections
           3GA. Expert advice or opinion
           3GB. Release on parole of prisoner serving life imprisonment for murder
   15.     Exclusion of rules of natural justice
   16.     Release of offenders on parole

           Part 5 - transitional provisions

           Division 1 - Prisoners currently serving life imprisonment for murder

   17.     Application of Division
   18.     Sentence includes non-parole period
   19.     Application to extend or exclude non-parole period
   20.     Appeals
   21.     Effect of decisions

           Division 2 - Matters part-heard by former Board

   22.     Completion by new Board
           Endnotes