Parole Review Committee (Validation) (Guernsey) Law, 2020

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PROJET DE LOI

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The Parole Review Committee (Validation)

(Guernsey) Law, 2020

WHEREAS the Parole Review Committee ("the Committee") is a body established by Resolution of the States in accordance with section 1 of the Parole Review Committee (Guernsey) Law, 1989[a];

WHEREAS by their Resolution of 14^th December, 1989[b] the States resolved that the constitution of the Committee shall include a Chairperson appointed by the States and the term of office of such appointment shall be three years;

WHEREAS by their Resolution of 30^th July, 2003[c] the States set a maximum total term of office of 16 years for a person appointed as Chairperson of the Committee;

WHEREAS by their Resolution of 7^th September, 2016[d] the States appointed Mr Philip John Taylor ("Mr Taylor") as Chairperson of the Committee for three years with effect from 1^st July, 2016;

WHEREAS therefore on 1^st July 2019 Mr Taylor ceased to hold office, but this was not noticed and Mr Taylor purported to continue to perform his functions as Chairperson of the Committee; and

WHEREAS by their Resolution of 18^th August, 2020 the States approved the re-appointment of Mr Taylor as Chairperson of the Committee retrospectively, for three years with effect from 1^st July, 2019.

NOW THEREFORE THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 18^th August, 2020[e], have approved the following provisions which, subject to the Sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, shall have force of law in the Island of Guernsey.

Validity of decisions etc.

1. (1) Nothing done during the period commencing on 1^st July, 2019 and ending on 18^th August, 2020 ("the relevant period") by Mr Philip John Taylor ("Mr Taylor") in the purported discharge of his functions as Chairperson of the Parole Review Committee ("the Committee"), shall be deemed to be, or ever to have been, unlawful or invalid by reason only of the expiration of Mr Taylor's term of office immediately before the beginning of the relevant period.

(2) No purported determination of or other thing done by, on behalf of, or in relation to the Committee during the relevant period shall be deemed to be, or ever to have been, unlawful or invalid by reason only of the expiration of Mr Taylor's term of office immediately before the beginning of the relevant period.

Citation.

2. This Law may be cited as the Parole Review Committee (Validation) (Guernsey) Law, 2020.

[a]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXXI, p. 414; amended by Order in Council No. IX of 2005; Ordinance No. XV of 2004.
[b]	Article XXI of Billet d'Etat No. XXV of 1989.
[c]	Article VII of Billet d'Etat No. XVI of 2003.
[d]	Article I of Billet d'Etat No. XXI of 2016.
[e]	Article II of Billet d'État No. XVIII of 2020.