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The Government\'s urgently passing a law to continue imposing parole-like conditions on 501 offenders after the High Court found the practice was unlawful.
\\nThe Returning Offenders Amendment Bill will put criminals deported from Australia in roughly the same position they\'d have been, if they\'d offended in New Zealand.
\\nMassey University Adjunct Professor of Law, Chris Gallavin told Mike Hosking in hindsight, the original 2015 legislation should have been done differently.
\\nThe Amendment Bill completed its second reading last night, and is expected to pass today.
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