Penalties and Sentences Amendment Bill 1994 (Qld)

Queensland

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES AMENDMENT BILL 1994

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES AMENDMENT BILL 1994

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page 1 Short title 20.6... 4 2 Actamended ....... 0... cece cnet tte ees 4 3 Amendment of s 56 (Notice to offender of right to apply for fine

option order)... 2.2... eee eee eee 4 4 Amendment of s 182B (Warrant for arrest and imprisonment) .......... 5 5 Amendment of s 183 (Imprisonment unless penalty paid).............. 5 6 Amendment of s 185 (Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of

penalty) 0... eee eens 5 7 Insertion of new s 204A... eee eet eteteee 5

204A Savings—warrants .... 2.0... 0. cece eee 5

A BILL

FOR

An Act to amend the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 Penalties and Sentences Amendment

The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Short title

Clause1. This Act may be cited as the Penalties and Sentences Amendment Act 1994.

Act amended

Clause2. This Act amends the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992.

Amendment of s 56 (Notice to offender of right to apply for fine option order)

Clause3. Section 56(2)— omit, insert—

'(2) Before a warrant may be issued for the commitment of the offender to prison, the proper officer of the court that imposed the fine must give to the offender—

(a) an application for a fine option order; and

(b) a notice informing the offender that, if the offender fails to make application for a fine option order within 15 business days after the notice is posted, or given personally, to the offender, a warrant may be issued for the offender's commitment to prison for failing to pay the fine.

'(3) In subsection (2)— "give" to the offender means— (a) give personally; or

(b) send by post to the offender at the offender's address last known to the proper officer.'. Penalties and Sentences Amendment

Amendment of s 182B (Warrant for arrest and imprisonment) Clause4. Section 182B(3)—