CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 19AM

(1)

Where:

(a)

at the time when a federal non-parole period (not being in respect of a life sentence) ends, the offender is serving, or is to serve, a State or Territory sentence (other than a life sentence for which a non-parole period has not been fixed); and

(b)

if a federal parole order were made at that time, the parole period would end while the offender would still be imprisoned in respect of the State or Territory offence;

the parole order must not be made.

(2)

Where:

(a)

at the time when a federal non-parole period (not being in respect of a life sentence) ends, the offender is serving, or is to serve, a State or Territory sentence (other than a life sentence for which a non-parole period has not been fixed); and

(b)

if a federal parole order were made at that time, the parole period would end after the offender was released, or released on parole, in respect of the State or Territory offence;

the Attorney-General must make the parole order, but it does not take effect before the offender is eligible to be so released.

(3)

Where, at the time when a federal non-parole period in respect of a life sentence, or sentences that include a life sentence, ends, the offender is serving, or is to serve, a State or Territory sentence (other than a life sentence for which a non-parole period has not been fixed), the Attorney-General must not make a parole order such that the parole period would end while the offender would still be imprisoned in respect of the State or Territory offence.

(4)

Where, at the time when a federal non-parole period ends, the offender is serving, or is to serve, a State or Territory life sentence for which a non-parole period has not been fixed, a federal parole order must not be made.