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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - Status of special care recipients subject to sentences

68: When liability to detention under sentence ceases

You could also call this:

"When you can leave detention after serving a sentence"

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When you are under a sentence, you might have to stay in detention. Your liability to detention under a sentence stops on the earliest of these dates: the date the New Zealand Parole Board says you can be released on parole or compassionate leave, the release date of your sentence as defined under Part 1 of the Parole Act 2002, or the date your sentence is determined.

You will stop being liable to detention when one of these things happens. This means you will not have to stay in detention anymore. The date that happens first is the date that your liability to detention stops.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
Status of special care recipients subject to sentences

68When liability to detention under sentence ceases

  1. For the purposes of this Act, a person's liability to detention under a sentence ceases on the earliest of the following dates:

  2. the date specified in an order of the New Zealand Parole Board that the person be released on parole or compassionate leave:
    1. the release date (if any) of the person's sentence, as defined under Part 1 of the Parole Act 2002:
      1. the date on which the sentence is determined.

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