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Sentencing Amendment (Sentences of Imprisonment) Bill 2017
The Sentencing Amendment (Sentences of Imprisonment) Bill 2017 is part of the State
Government’s response to the KPMG Audit Report on Sentence and Remand Order Processing
in Tasmania.
The Bill sets out a range of details that need to be contained in a sentencing order. These include
specifying any non-parole period that the offender must serve and specifying whether multiple
sentences are to be served concurrently or cumulatively.
This Bill is not intended as a reflection on the excellent work done by the State’s judiciary. Rather
it is intended to set down a checklist of information to be provided through the sentencing order
to ensure orders are clear and consistent.
This will enable orders to be better understood by the offender and others involved in the
proceeding as well as allowing the information contained in the order to be more efficiently
processed into the relevant database.
The Bill does not confer a power to sentence or provide grounds for invalidating a sentence.
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