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programs. This bill will continue to see the parole system used as a privilege and marker of good behaviour.
We have chosen to name the scheme “parole time credit” to reflect the strengths-based nature of the scheme and more accurately describe the benefit to offenders who live crime-free time in our community.
The bill provides for a delayed commencement date to better support the courts, relevant agencies, services and the legal fraternity to establish the necessary administrative arrangements to support the scheme, including systems to calculate combined sentences. The government is confident that these systems, which are successfully operating across other Australian jurisdictions, will be securely in place in the coming months.
I propose to move a government amendment to the bill in response to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety report of 15 October 2019. This is a minor and technical amendment addressing the expiry time frame of one section inserted by the bill. I thank the scrutiny committee for their feedback.
The bill balances the introduction of a much-needed scheme to credit offenders who live in the community in compliance with their parole conditions with the need to ensure community safety and maintain the basis of the principles of sentencing, including punishment and deterrence. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (3.16): Pursuant to standing order 182A(b), I seek leave to move an amendment to this bill that is minor and technical in nature and that was not circulated in accordance with standing order 178A.
Leave granted.
MR RATTENBURY: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 4589]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendment.
Amendment agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
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