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SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 48A

Home detention condition

A court must not make an intensive community correction order in relation to an offender subject to a home detention condition unless the court is satisfied that:

        (a)     suitable arrangements are available for the offender to reside at premises or a place; and

        (b)     the premises or place is suitable for the purposes of the order subject to the condition; and

        (c)     the making of the order subject to the condition is not likely to inconvenience or put at risk other persons living in those premises or at that place or the community generally.

Notes for section 48A(c)

1     This includes the protection of any person who is in a family relationship or a domestic relationship with the offender.

2     See section 5(5) and (6) for the sentencing guidelines for sentencing an offender in relation to an offence that involves domestic violence.



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