New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Release at statutory release date

• (1) The statutory release date of an offender is the release date of the sentence to which the offender is subject (including any notional single sentences) that has the latest release date.

  (2) An offender who is detained in a prison on his or her statutory release date must be released from detention on that date.

  (3) Subsection (2) is subject to section 179A of the Corrections Act 2004.

  Compare: 1985 No 120 s 90

  Section 17(2): amended, on 1 October 2007, by section 13 of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).

  Section 17(2): amended, on 1 June 2005, by section 206 of the Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50).

  Section 17(3): added, on 3 April 2009, by section 36(2) of the Corrections Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 3).