Hon Judith Collins
Government Bill
17—2
As reported from the Law and Order Committee
Commentary
Key
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Purpose
Part 1Amendments to Sentencing Act 2002
4 Principal Act amended
4A Interpretation
5 New sections 86A to 86H and heading inserted
Additional consequences for repeated serious violent offending
86A Interpretation
86B First warning on receiving first qualifying sentence for serious violent offence
86B Stage-1 offence: offender given first warning
86C Final warning on receiving second qualifying sentence for serious violent offence
86C Stage-2 offence other than murder: offender given final warning and must serve full term of imprisonment
86D Imprisonment for life on third or subsequent qualifying sentence
86D Stage-3 offences other than murder: offender sentenced to maximum term of imprisonment
86E Offenders with record of warning or final warning who are sentenced to imprisonment for life for murder
86E When murder is a stage-2 or stage-3 offence
86F Continuing effect of warnings
86FA Consequences of cancellation of record on later sentences
86G Appeal against orders relating to imprisonment
86H Sections 86B to 86E prevail over inconsistent provisions
5A Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment
5B Presumption in favour of life imprisonment for murder
6 Heading above section 103 amended
7 Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment if life imprisonment imposed for murder
8 Imposition of minimum period of imprisonment of 17 years or more
9 Transitional provision
9A Consequential amendments to other Acts
Part 2Amendments to Parole Act 2002
10 Principal Act amended
11 Parole eligibility date
12 Non-parole periods
13 Release date of sentence
Schedule Consequential amendments to other Acts
Legislative history
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: