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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
23Definitions—ch 4
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23 Definitions—ch 4
(1) In this Act:
recommitted, for an offender, means placed in the director-general’s
custody because of an order under any of the following provisions:
(a) section 72 (Suspension or cancellation of intensive correction
order—recommittal to full-time detention);
(b) section 161 (Cancellation of parole—recommittal to full-time
detention);
(c) section 312 (Cancellation of licence—recommittal to full-time
detention).
release date, for an offender for a sentence, means the day the term
of the sentence ends.
Note The term of a sentence includes the term of the sentence as amended (see
dict).
(2) In this chapter:
full-time detainee—see section 22 (1).
offender—see section 22 (2).
remandee—see section 22 (3).