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Sentencing Act 1995
111Correction of sentences by Supreme Court
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111 Correction of sentences by Supreme Court
(1) Where:
(a) a person has been sentenced (whether at first instance or on
appeal) by a court (including the Supreme Court) for an
(b) the sentencing court was the Local Court, application is made
to the Supreme Court for relief or remedy in the nature of
certiorari to remove the proceeding into the Supreme Court;
and the Supreme Court determines that the sentence imposed was
beyond the power of the sentencing court or its own power, if it was
the sentencing court, it may, instead of quashing the sentence,
amend the sentence by substituting for the sentence imposed a
sentence which the sentencing court had power to impose.
(2) Unless the Supreme Court otherwise directs, a sentence of
imprisonment imposed by it under subsection (1) commences on
the day on which the sentence imposed in the earlier proceeding
purported to take effect but in calculating the term to be served
under the sentence any time during which the offender was at large
(whether on bail or otherwise) must be disregarded.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) extend and apply, with necessary changes,
to any order made on, but not forming part of, the sentence of an
offender as if reference in those subsections to a sentence included
a reference to such an order.
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