Queensland Consolidated Acts

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 151I

151I Explaining treatment order

(1) Before making a treatment order, the court must explain, or cause to be explained, to the offender the purpose and effect of the order, including—

(a) the content of the custodial part and rehabilitation part of the treatment order; and

(b) the core conditions of the rehabilitation part of the treatment order; and

(c) the potential requirements of the treatment program under the rehabilitation part of the treatment order, including the impacts on the offender’s right to privacy that may be necessary to comply with the treatment order; and

Examples of impacts on the offender’s right to privacy—

• the requirement to consent to the sharing of information about the offender between review team members

• a requirement the offender wear a drug or alcohol monitoring device

• a requirement to install monitoring devices at the offender’s place of residence

(d) what may happen if the offender does not comply with the rehabilitation part of the treatment order; and

(e) when and how the treatment order, and the rehabilitation part of the treatment order, may be amended, revoked, cancelled or terminated.

(2) The explanation must be made in language, or in a way, likely to be readily understood by the offender.