Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT 2003 - SECT 64B

64B .         Contravention of prohibition order

        (1)         A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes a prohibition order given to the person under section 64A(5) commits an offence.

        Penalty: imprisonment for 9 months.

        (2)         Despite the Sentencing Act 1995 section 41(2), a court sentencing a person for an offence under subsection (1) may use only the sentencing options in the Sentencing Act 1995 section 39(2)(d) to (h).

        (3)         The Young Offenders Act 1994 section 71 does not apply to the sentencing of a young person, as defined in section 3 of that Act (the young offender ), for an offence under subsection (1).

        (4)         If a young offender is being dealt with by a juvenile justice team for an offence under subsection (1), the chief executive officer is to be taken to be a victim, as referred to in the Young Offenders Act 1994 section 31(1), for the purposes of Part 5 Division 2 of that Act.

        [Section 64B inserted: No. 42 of 2008 s. 5.]