Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 14

Fixing of new non-parole period in respect of multiple sentences

14. Fixing of new non-parole period in respect of multiple sentences



(1) If-

   (a)  a court has sentenced an offender to be imprisoned in respect of an
        offence and has fixed a non-parole period in respect of the sentence;
        and

   (b)  before the end of that non-parole period the offender is sentenced by
        a court to a further term of imprisonment in respect of which it
        proposes to fix a non-parole period-

the court must fix a new single non-parole period in respect of all the
sentences the offender is to serve or complete.

(2) The new single non-parole period fixed at the time of the imposition of
the further sentence-

   (a)  supersedes any previous non-parole period that the offender is to
        serve or complete; and

   (b)  must not be such as to render the offender eligible to be released on
        parole earlier than would have been the case if the further sentence
        had not been imposed.