Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The purpose of a
programme requirement is —
(a) to
allow for any personal factors which contributed to the offender’s
criminal behaviour to be assessed; and
(b) to
provide an opportunity for the offender to recognise, to take steps to control
and, if necessary, to receive appropriate treatment for those factors.
(2) The programme
requirement is a requirement that the offender must obey the orders of a
speciality court or a CCO as to —
(a)
undergoing assessment by a medical practitioner, a psychiatrist, a
psychologist or a social worker, or more than one of them and, if necessary,
appropriate treatment;
(b)
undergoing assessment and, if necessary, appropriate treatment in relation to
the abuse of alcohol, drugs or other substances;
(c)
attending educational, vocational, or personal development programmes or
courses;
(d)
residing at a specified place for the purposes of any matter in paragraph (a),
(b) or (c);
(e) more
than one of the above.
(3) A speciality court
or a CCO must not order an offender to undergo treatment of any sort unless a
person qualified to recommend or administer the treatment has recommended that
the offender undergo such treatment.
(4) A person is not to
administer treatment of any sort mentioned in subsection (2) to an offender
without the informed consent of the offender.
(5) The requirements
of a programme requirement imposed as part of a PSO are additional to the
requirements of any other programme requirement applicable to the offender
under another PSO or a community order or a sentence of CSI.
(6) A programme
requirement ceases to be in force when a speciality court or a CCO gives the
offender notice to that effect, or the PSO ceases to be in force, whichever
happens first.
(7) A CCO must not
give notice unless satisfied that the offender has complied with the programme
requirement.
[Section 33G inserted: No. 50 of 2003 s. 6;
amended: No. 27 of 2004 s. 6(4); No. 47 of 2011 s. 26(3).]