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SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 33H

33H .         Curfew requirement

        (1)         The purposes of the curfew requirement are —

            (a)         to allow for the movements of an offender to be restricted during periods when there is a high risk of the offender offending; and

            (b)         to subject the offender to short periods of detention at the place where the offender lives or at some other specified place.

        (2)         The curfew requirement is a requirement that the offender —

            (a)         must remain at a specified place (the specified place ), for specified periods, subject to subsection (8); and

            (b)         must submit to surveillance or monitoring as ordered by a speciality court or a CCO.

        (3)         The term of a curfew requirement must be set by the court when it imposes the requirement; but the requirement must not be imposed so as to result in a curfew requirement being in force, whether under a PSO or an ISO or a sentence of CSI, for a continuous period that exceeds 6 months.

        (4)         The term of a curfew is concurrent with the term of any other curfew requirement applicable to the offender under another PSO or an ISO or a sentence of CSI unless the court orders otherwise.

        (5)         At any one time the aggregate of the unexpired terms of curfew requirements applicable to the offender under PSOs or ISOs or sentences of CSI must not exceed 6 months.

        (6)         The court may give directions as to the periods when the offender ought to be subject to a curfew.

        (7)         The offender is not to be required by the curfew requirement to remain at a place for periods that amount to less than 2 or more than 12 hours in any one day.

        (8)         The offender may only leave the specified place during a specified period —

            (a)         to obtain urgent medical or dental treatment for the offender; or

            (b)         for the purpose of averting or minimising a serious risk of death or injury to the offender or to another person; or

            (c)         to obey an order issued under a written law (such as a summons) requiring the offender’s presence elsewhere; or

            (d)         for a purpose approved of by a CCO; or

            (e)         on the order of a CCO.

        (9)         The curfew requirement ceases to be in force when its term ends, or when the PSO ceases to be in force, whichever happens first.

        (10)         Without limiting the means by which the offender may be kept under surveillance or monitored, a speciality court or a CCO may, for the purposes of subsection (2)(b), order an offender to do 1 or both of the following —

            (a)         wear an approved electronic monitoring device;

            (b)         permit the installation of an approved electronic monitoring device at the place where the offender resides.

        (11)         A CCO may give such reasonable directions to the offender as are necessary for the proper administration of the curfew requirement.

        (12)         Without limiting subsection (11), if the offender is authorised under subsection (8) to leave the specified place, a CCO may give directions as to —

            (a)         when the offender may leave; and

            (b)         the period of the authorised absence; and

            (c)         when the offender must return; and

            (d)         the method of travel to be used by the offender during the absence; and

            (e)         the manner in which the offender must report his or her whereabouts.

        (13)         To ascertain whether or not the offender is complying with the curfew requirement, a CCO may, at any time —

            (a)         enter or telephone the specified place; or

            (b)         enter or telephone the offender’s place of employment or any other place where the offender is authorised or required to attend; or

            (c)         question any person at any place referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

        (14)         A person must not —

            (a)         hinder a person exercising powers under subsection (13); or

            (b)         fail to answer a question put pursuant to subsection (13)(c) or give an answer that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

        Penalty: $2 000 and imprisonment for 12 months.

        (15)         In this section —

        specified means specified by a speciality court or the CEO (corrections) from time to time.

        [Section 33H inserted: No. 50 of 2003 s. 6; amended: No. 27 of 2004 s. 6(4); No. 65 of 2006 s. 49; No. 13 of 2020 s. 5.]



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