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Queensland
PENALTIES AND
SENTENCES AMENDMENT
BILL 1994
Queensland
PENALTIES AND SENTENCES
AMENDMENT BILL 1994
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Amendment of s 56 (Notice to offender of right to apply for fine
option order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Amendment of s 182B (Warrant for arrest and imprisonment) . . . . . . . . . . 5
5 Amendment of s 183 (Imprisonment unless penalty paid) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6 Amendment of s 185 (Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of
penalty) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7 Insertion of new s 204A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
204A Savings--warrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1994
A BILL
FOR
An Act to amend the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992
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Penalties and Sentences Amendment
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
title 2
Short
This Act may be cited as the Penalties and Sentences Amendment 3
Clause1.
Act 1994. 4
amended 5
Act
This Act amends the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992. 6
Clause2.
of s 56 (Notice to offender of right to apply for fine 7
Amendment
option order) 8
Section 56(2)-- 9
Clause3.
omit, insert-- 10
`(2) Before a warrant may be issued for the commitment of the offender 11
to prison, the proper officer of the court that imposed the fine must give to 12
the offender-- 13
(a) an application for a fine option order; and 14
(b) a notice informing the offender that, if the offender fails to make 15
application for a fine option order within 15 business days after 16
the notice is posted, or given personally, to the offender, a warrant 17
may be issued for the offender's commitment to prison for 18
failing to pay the fine. 19
`(3) In subsection (2)-- 20
"give" to the offender means-- 21
(a) give personally; or 22
(b) send by post to the offender at the offender's address last known 23
to the proper officer.'. 24
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of s 182B (Warrant for arrest and imprisonment) 1
Amendment
Section 182B(3)-- 2
Clause4.
omit. 3
of s 183 (Imprisonment unless penalty paid) 4
Amendment
Clause5. Section 183(c)-- 5
omit. 6
of s 185 (Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of 7
Amendment
penalty) 8
Section 185(1)(d)-- 9
Clause6.
omit. 10
of new s 204A 11
Insertion
Clause7. After section 204-- 12
insert-- 13
14
`Savings--warrants
`204A.(1) Section 182B(3) as in force from time to time before the 15
commencement of this section is taken to have always been directory only, 16
and a warrant must not be taken to be, or at any time to have been, invalid 17
merely because of a failure by the proper officer of a court to make a person 18
aware of the provisions of Division 2 of Part 4. 19
`(2) Section 56(2) as in force from time to time from 23 July 1993 until 20
immediately before the commencement of this section is taken to have been 21
complied with in relation to an offender if the application and advice 22
mentioned in the subsection were given to the offender by the proper officer 23
of the court mentioned in the subsection. 24
`(3) In subsection (2)-- 25
"given" to the offender means-- 26
(a) given personally; or 27
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(b) sent by post to the offender at the offender's address last known 1
to the proper officer.'. 2
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© State of Queensland 1994
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