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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
32Release at end of sentence
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32 Release at end of sentence
(1) An offender must be released from imprisonment on the offender’s
release date for the sentence.
(2) The offender may be released from imprisonment at any time on the
release date.
(3) However, if the release date is not a working day at the place of
imprisonment, the offender may be released from imprisonment at
any time during the last working day at that place before the release
date if the offender asks to be released on that day.
(4) If the offender is released under subsection (3), the offender’s
sentence is taken to have ended when the offender is released under
that subsection.