Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (COMMUNITY CORRECTION REFORM) ACT 2011 (NO. 65 OF 2011) - SECT 49

After section 115 of the Sentencing Act 1991 insert —

        " 115A     Effect where punishment suffered for indictable offence

    (1)     If a person who has been convicted of an indictable offence has suffered the punishment imposed in respect of it, the punishment has the like effect and consequence as a pardon under the great seal.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not limit the operation of any enactment that expressly disqualifies a person who has been convicted of an indictable offence from holding any office.".