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Sentencing Act 2002

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

49: Standard conditions of supervision

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"Rules you must follow when you're on supervision"

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If you are sentenced to supervision, you must follow some standard conditions. You must report to a probation officer in the area where you live as soon as possible, and no later than 72 hours after your sentence starts, unless your start date has been deferred under section 20A(2)(b). You must also report to a probation officer when they ask you to, and tell them where you live and work.

You cannot move to a new address in a different area without a probation officer's written permission. If you do move, you must report to a probation officer in your new area within 72 hours. You must also tell a probation officer if you plan to change your address within the same area, and give them your new address.

You must not live at an address that a probation officer has told you not to live at. You must also do what a probation officer tells you to do, such as allowing them to collect biometric information. You cannot work in a job that a probation officer has told you not to do, and you cannot associate with people that a probation officer has told you not to associate with. You may also be required to take part in a needs assessment to help you rehabilitate and reintegrate into society.

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

49Standard conditions of supervision

  1. If an offender is sentenced to supervision, the following standard conditions apply:

  2. the offender must report in person to a probation officer in the probation area in which the offender resides as soon as practicable and not later than 72 hours after the sentence is imposed unless the start date of the sentence has been deferred under section 20A(2)(b), in which case the offender must report not later than 72 hours after that date:
    1. the offender must report to a probation officer as and when required to do so by a probation officer, and must notify the officer of his or her residential address and the nature and place of his or her employment when asked to do so:
      1. the offender must not move to a new residential address in another probation area without the prior written consent of a probation officer:
        1. if consent is given under paragraph (c), the offender must report in person to a probation officer in the new probation area in which the offender is to reside as soon as practicable, and not later than 72 hours, after the offender's arrival in the new area:
          1. if an offender intends to change his or her residential address within a probation area, the offender must give a probation officer reasonable notice before moving from his or her residential address (unless notification is impossible in the circumstances) and must advise the probation officer of the new address:
            1. the offender must not reside at any address at which a probation officer has directed the offender not to reside:
              1. the offender must, if a probation officer directs, allow the collection of biometric information:
                1. the offender must not engage, or continue to engage, in any employment or occupation in which a probation officer has directed the offender not to engage or continue to engage:
                  1. the offender must not associate with any specified person, or with persons of any specified class, with whom a probation officer has, in writing, directed the offender not to associate:
                    1. the offender must take part in a rehabilitative and reintegrative needs assessment if and when directed to do so by a probation officer.

                      1. The conditions in subsection (1)(c) to (f) do not apply to the extent that they are inconsistent with—

                      2. any special conditions imposed by the court; or
                        1. in the case of an offender who is also subject to a sentence of community detention, any condition of that sentence.

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                          Notes
                          • Section 49(1)(a): replaced, on , by section 17 of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).
                          • Section 49(1)(fa): inserted, on , by section 58 of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 42).
                          • Section 49(2): replaced, on , by section 19 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).