Western Australian Current Acts

SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 43

43 .         If statutory penalty is imprisonment or fine: sentencing options

        (1)         This section applies if a court is sentencing an offender for an offence the statutory penalty for which is such that either imprisonment or a fine may be imposed.

        (2)         If the offender is a natural person the court may use any one of the sentencing options in section 39(2).

        (2a)         If the statutory penalty for the offence is such that either a minimum fine or imprisonment may be imposed, then despite subsection (2) the court must impose one of the following but not both —

            (a)         a fine that is at least the minimum fine and not more than any maximum fine for the offence;

            (b)         a sentencing option in section 39(2) that is listed after section 39(2)(c),

                unless the written law creating the offence provides otherwise.

        (3)         If a court imposes a term of imprisonment on an offender that is not suspended, it may, in addition, impose indefinite imprisonment under Part 14.

        (4)         If the offender is a body corporate the court may use any one of the sentencing options in section 40(2).

        [Section 43 amended: No. 50 of 2003 s. 12.]