CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 58E Emergency management days
CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 58E
Emergency management daysS. 58E(1) amended by No. 45/1996 s. 17(Sch. 1 item 41).
(1) The Secretary may, in accordance with the regulations, reduce the length of a sentence of imprisonment being served by a person or the length of the non-parole period (if one has been fixed in respect of the sentence) on account of good behaviour while suffering disruption or deprivation—
(a) during an industrial dispute or emergency existing in the prison or police gaol in which the sentence is being served; or
(b) in other circumstances of an unforeseen and special nature.
(2) Subsection (1) applies to all sentences of imprisonment, including any imposed for murder, irrespective of whether the sentences were imposed before or after the commencement of this section.
S. 58E(3) inserted by No. 45/2019 s. 30.
(3) This section does not apply to any prisoner (whether or not the prisoner was involved in any way) in respect of or in relation to—
(a) any event (including any emergency or riot) at the Metropolitan Remand Centre, Victoria, on 30 June 2015 and 1 July 2015 and the security response to that event; or
(b) any emergency, riot or other significant security incident that is caused or contributed to by that prisoner or any other prisoner.
Pt 8 Div. 4 (Heading and ss 59, 60) repealed by No. 44/1991 s. 3(1), new Pt 8 Div. 4 (Heading and ss 59–60X) inserted by No. 53/2003 s. 14, amended by Nos 97/2005 s. 182(Sch. 4 item 13.3), 49/2006 s. 6(1), 52/2008 ss 240, 241, 68/2008 ss 67, 68, 13/2010 s. 51(Sch. item 16.5), 30/2010 ss 47− 49(1), 50− 52, 53/2010 ss 221(Sch. items 3.2−3.6), 222, repealed by No. 48/2011 s. 6.
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Division 5—Parole