Victorian Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONS LEGISLATION FURTHER AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 64 OF 2017) - SECT 24

After section 127 of the Corrections Act 1986 insert —

        " 127A     Transitional—Justice Legislation Amendment (Parole Reform and Other Matters) Act 2016

To avoid doubt, and without limiting the application of the amendments made by Part 2 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Parole Reform and Other Matters) Act 2016 in respect of applications for parole made on or after the commencement of those amendments—

        (a)     the amendments made by that Part also apply to a prisoner convicted and sentenced as mentioned in section 74AAA(1), regardless of whether, before the commencement of those amendments—

              (i)     the prisoner had become eligible for parole; or

              (ii)     the prisoner had taken any steps to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole; or

              (iii)     the Board had begun any consideration of whether the prisoner should be should be granted parole; and

        (b)     the Board may, in its discretion, treat any steps taken by a prisoner to ask the Board to grant the prisoner parole, being steps taken before the commencement of those amendments, as being an application lodged with the secretary of the Board under section 74AAA(2).".