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Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring (Amendment)
Act 2006
Act No. 83/2006
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1. Purpose 1
2. Commencement 2
3. Instructions and directions in relation to extended supervision
order 2
4. New section 50 inserted 2
50. Transitional provision—Serious Sex Offenders
Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006 2
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ENDNOTES 4
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Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring
(Amendment) Act 2006 †
[Assented to 10 October 2006]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1. Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to amend the Serious
Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 so as to
empower the Adult Parole Board to give an
instruction or direction under section 16(2) of that
Act requiring an offender to reside at premises on
land that is within the perimeter of a prison but
does not form part of the prison.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day after the
day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. Instructions and directions in relation to extended
supervision order
After section 16(3) of the Serious Sex Offenders
Monitoring Act 2005 insert—
"(3A) Without limiting sub-section (2) or (3)(a), an
instruction or direction given by the Adult
Parole Board under sub-section (2) as to
where an offender may reside may require
the offender to reside at premises that are
situated on land that is within the perimeter
of a prison (whether within or outside any
walls erected on prison land) but does not
form part of the prison.
(3B) An offender subject to an extended
supervision order who is given an instruction
or direction under sub-section (2) of a kind
referred to in sub-section (3A) must be taken
for the purposes of this Act to have been
released in the community and to be residing
in the community while residing in
accordance with that instruction or
direction.".
4. New section 50 inserted
After section 49 of the Serious Sex Offenders
Monitoring Act 2005 insert—
"50. Transitional provision—Serious Sex
Offenders Monitoring (Amendment) Act
2006
The amendments made to this Act by
section 3 of the Serious Sex Offenders
Monitoring (Amendment) Act 2006 apply
with respect to an extended supervision
s. 2
See:
Act No.
1/2005
and
amending
Act Nos
34/2005,
69/2005,
97/2005,
2/2006,
14/2006 and
49/2006.
LawToday:
www.dms.
dpc.vic.
gov.au
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order, irrespective of whether that order is
made before, on or after the commencement
of that section.".
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ENDNOTES
† Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Assembly: 3 October 2006
Legislative Council: 4 October 2006
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Serious Sex
Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 in relation to the instructions or
directions that may be given by the Adult Parole Board under that Act and
for other purposes."
Endnotes
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