On 27 June 2022, the NSW Parliament assented (passed 23 June
2022, Act 27/2022) to the Bail Amendment Bill 2022 which introduced
a new incentive said to "strengthen" the Bail Act
2013.
This new Section, 22B, provides that:-
A court is not to grant bail or dispense with bail, including in
the course of considering a detention application, during the
period following conviction and before sentencing for an offence
for which an offender will be sentenced to a full-time detention,
unless it is established that special or exceptional circumstances
exist that justify that bail decision.
For the purposes of the provision 'conviction' is to be
defined in Subsection (5) to include a plea of guilty.
