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Parole Act 2002

Parole and other release from detention - Release - Actual release

55B: Offenders released early remain offenders under New Zealand law

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"Even if you leave New Zealand, your sentence still applies if you come back."

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If you are an offender and you are released early and deported from New Zealand under sections 55 and 55A, your sentence does not stop. Your sentence continues to run, even if you are not in New Zealand. If you return to New Zealand before your sentence expiry date, you will have to go back to serving your sentence.

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Part 1Parole and other release from detention
Release: Actual release

55BOffenders released early remain offenders under New Zealand law

  1. The following apply to an offender released and deported under sections 55 and 55A:

  2. his or her sentence continues to run; and
    1. he or she is liable to resume serving the sentence if he or she returns to New Zealand before the sentence expiry date.

      Notes
      • Section 55B: inserted, at 2 am on , by section 406(1) of the Immigration Act 2009 (2009 No 51).