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Penal Institutions Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978

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Short Title

Remission of sentence

Penal Institutions Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978

Public Act		1978 No 67
Date of assent		18 October 1978

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Remission of sentence
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Penal Institutions Act 1954

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Penal Institutions Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Penal Institutions Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Remission of sentence

(1)

Section 31 of the principal Act (as originally enacted) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1c) (as inserted by section 2 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1964), the following subsection:

“(1d)

Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1c) of this section, no person shall be eligible for remission under that subsection while he remains subject to an order made under section 47 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978.”

(2)

Section 31 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 14(1) of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1975) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(2a)

Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of this section, no person shall be eligible for release under that subsection while he remains subject to an order made under section 47 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978.”

(3)

Subsection (2) of this section shall come into force on the date appointed for the commencement of section 14 of the Penal Institutions Amendment Act 1975, and, on that date, subsection (1) of this section shall be repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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