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SENTENCING ACT 2017 - SECT 70

70—Home detention not available for certain offences

        (1)         The powers vested in a court by this Subdivision—

            (a)         are exercisable despite the fact that an Act prescribes a minimum penalty; but

            (b)         are not exercisable in relation to—

                  (i)         a defendant who is serving or is liable to serve a sentence of indeterminate duration and who has not had a non-parole period fixed; or

                  (ii)         a defendant who is being sentenced for—

                        (A)         an offence of murder; or

                        (B)         treason; or

                        (C)         an offence involving a terrorist act; or

                        (D)         any other offence in respect of which an Act expressly prohibits the reduction, mitigation or substitution of penalties or sentences.

        (2)         In this section—

"Act" includes a statutory instrument;

"terrorist act" has the same meaning as in Part 5.3 of the Criminal Code of the Commonwealth.

        (3)         For the purposes of this Division, a reference to an "offence of murder includes—

            (a)         an offence of conspiracy to murder; and

            (b)         an offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of murder.



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