1990 - No. 14 PRISONS ACT 1952 - REGULATION
(Relating to the functions of the Serious Offenders Review Board) NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 7 of 12 January 1990]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Prisons Act 1952, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

MICHAEL YABSLEY Minister for Corrective Services. The Prisons (General) Regulation 1989 is amended: (a) by inserting in clauses 8 (3), (4) and (6), 12 (2) and (3), 15 (2), 17 and 18 (1) (a) after the words "imprisonment for life" wherever occurring the words "or any sentence which under section 13A (6) of the Sentencing Act 1989 replaces an original sentence of imprisonment for life"; (b) by inserting after clause 18 (5) the following subclause: (6) For the purposes of section 61 (c) of the Act, the prescribed existing life sentences are all existing life sentences referred to in section 13A of the Sentencing Act 1989 which have been replaced under that section by a sentence comprising a minimum term and an additional term.
EXPLANATORY NOTE The object of this Regulation is to amend the Prisons (General) Regulation 1989 to prescribe the functions of the Serious Offenders Review Board (formerly the

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Release on Licence Board) as including ones related to prisoners who have had an original life sentence replaced by a minimum term and additional term under the Sentencing Act 1989.

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