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SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 36

Purpose of an order

    (1)     The purpose of a community correction order is to provide a community based sentence that may be used for a wide range of offending behaviours while having regard to and addressing the circumstances of the offender.

S. 36(2) inserted by No. 69/2014 s. 17.

    (2)     Without limiting when a community correction order may be imposed, it may be an appropriate sentence where, before the ability of the court to impose a suspended sentence was abolished, the court may have imposed a sentence of imprisonment and then suspended in whole that sentence of imprisonment.

Pt 3A Div. 2 (Heading) inserted by No. 65/2011 s. 21.

Division 2—General

S. 37 amended by No. 19/1999 s. 8(1), substituted by No. 65/2011 s. 21, amended by No. 65/2016 s. 9.



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