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Sentencing Act 1995
144Mandatory sentencing before and after commencement
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144 Mandatory sentencing before and after commencement
(1) This section applies:
(a) to an offender:
(i) who committed an offence before the commencement;
and
(ii) to whom Part 3, Division 6A, as in force before the
commencement, applies; and
(b) if a court had not imposed a sentence on the offender in
relation to the offence before the commencement.
(2) Subject to section 148, the Act as in force after the commencement
applies in relation to the sentence the court must impose on the
offender in relation to the offence.
(3) For this section, if any of the conduct constituting an offence