Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5B · Remission of Sentences
50ZC. Application
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This Division applies to a prisoner —
prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
convicted before, on or after 1 July 2014;
whose sentence of imprisonment does not include a sentence of life imprisonment for an offence committed on or after 21 August 1997; and
whose sentence of imprisonment includes a term of imprisonment (not including a default sentence) imposed for an offence committed before 1 July 2014.
For the purposes of subsection (1) and this Division, a sentence of life imprisonment imposed for an offence committed before 21 August 1997 is deemed to be a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 20 years.