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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Community-based sentences

44: Community-based sentences

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"Staying in your community with rules to follow after doing something wrong"

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When you hear about community-based sentences, it means a type of sentence that lets you stay in your community. This can include things like community work, supervision, intensive supervision, or community detention. You will have to follow certain rules when you are given one of these sentences.

When a court is deciding which community-based sentence to give you, they think about how it will affect your life. They consider how it might help you develop skills for work and living. The court wants to choose a sentence that will help you in a positive way.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Community-based sentences

44Community-based sentences

  1. In this Act, community-based sentence means the following—

  2. a sentence of community work:
    1. a sentence of supervision:
      1. a sentence of intensive supervision:
        1. a sentence of community detention.

          1. In sentencing an offender to a community-based sentence, a court may have regard to the potential effect that a particular sentence may have in contributing to the development of an offender's work and living skills.

          Notes
          • Section 44: replaced, on , by section 17 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).