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SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 18ZH

Variation on assessing offender's progress

S. 18ZH(1) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 20(1).

    (1)     The Drug Court may vary the treatment and supervision part of a drug and alcohol treatment order from time to time if the Drug Court considers it appropriate to do so based on its assessment of the offender's progress.

Note to s. 18ZH(1) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 20(1).

Note

The Drug Court may also vary the treatment and supervision part of a drug and alcohol treatment order under section 18ZJ, 18ZL or  18ZN.

    (2)     The Drug Court may do so on its own initiative or on the application of—

        (a)     the offender; or

S. 18ZH(2)(b) substituted by No. 43/2020 s. 20(2).

        (b)     the informant, the police prosecutor, or the prosecution (as the case requires); or

        (c)     a prescribed person or a person in a prescribed class of persons.

    (3)     The treatment and supervision part of the order may be varied by—

        (a)     adding or removing program conditions; or

        (b)     varying one or more core conditions, other than the condition referred to in section 18ZF(1)(a), or program conditions, for example to vary—

              (i)     the frequency of treatment; or

              (ii)     the degree of supervision; or

              (iii)     the frequency of drug or alcohol testing; or

              (iv)     the type or frequency of vocational, educational, employment or other programs that the offender must attend.

S. 18ZI inserted by No. 2/2002 s. 5.



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