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Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Sentence calculation - Release dates

86: Release date of sentence

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"When You Get Out of Prison Depends on Your Sentence"

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When you are given a short-term sentence, your release date is the day you have served half of it. You serve half of your sentence and then you can be released. This is how it works for short-term sentences.

If you have a long-term determinate sentence, your release date is the day your sentence ends. This means you will be released when your sentence is finished. Your release date is the same as the end of your sentence.

If you have an indeterminate sentence, you do not have a release date. This means you do not know when you will be released. You will not have a set date to be released.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Sentence calculation: Release dates

86Release date of sentence

  1. The release date of a short-term sentence (including a short-term notional single sentence) is the date on which the offender who is subject to the sentence has served half of it.

  2. Repealed

  3. The release date of a long-term determinate sentence (including a long-term notional single sentence) is its sentence expiry date.

  4. An indeterminate sentence has no release date.

Notes
  • Section 86(1A): repealed, on , by section 20 of the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Act 2022 (2022 No 40).