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SERIOUS OFFENDERS ACT 2018 (NO. 27 OF 2018) - SECT 172

Serious contravention

    (1)     The Authority may consider that conduct of an offender constitutes a serious contravention of a condition of a supervision order or an interim supervision order if the conduct—

        (a)     creates a risk to the safety of the community; or

        (b)     is a repeated contravention of a condition; or

        (c)     may increase the risk that the offender may commit a serious sex offence or a serious violence offence or both or an offence referred to in Schedule 3; or

        (d)     is preparatory to the commission of a serious sex offence or a serious violence offence or both or an offence referred to in Schedule 3; or

        (e)     threatens the safety of any person; or

        (f)     seriously compromises the rehabilitation or treatment of the offender.

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) limits the circumstances in which conduct of an offender may be considered to constitute a serious contravention of a condition of a supervision order or an interim supervision order.

    (3)     This section does not apply to a contravention by the offender of—

        (a)     a condition relating to medical treatment; or

        (b)     a condition by engaging in conduct that threatens the safety of the offender or that causes harm to the offender.



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