Section 17 — Crimes Act 1961: No sentence of solitary confinement to be passed

17 No sentence of solitary confinement to be passed (1) No offender shall be sentenced to solitary confinement. (2) Every reference in any enactment to solitary confinement, or to imprisonment in solitary confinement, shall hereafter be construed as a reference to imprisonment. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or affect any of the provisions of the Corrections Act 2004 , or of any regulations thereunder, in respect of offences against discipline. Compare: 1908 No 32 s 24(2) Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 June 2005, by section 206 Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50) by substituting the expression “ Corrections Act 2004 ” for the expression “ Penal Institutions Act 1954 ” . See clause 2 Corrections Act Commencement Order 2005 (SR 2005/52).