Victorian Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONS AMENDMENT (BREACH OF PAROLE) ACT 2013 (NO. 46 OF 2013) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Corrections Act 1986 —

              (i)     to provide that it is an offence for a prisoner to breach a prescribed term or condition of his or her parole order without reasonable excuse; and

              (ii)     to enable a member of the police force to arrest and detain a prisoner released on parole if that prisoner has breached a prescribed term or condition of the parole order;

        (b)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to provide that a prison sentence imposed for the offence of breaching a prescribed term or condition of a parole order is served cumulatively on other prison sentences.