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Sentencing Act 2002

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

51: Programmes

You could also call this:

"Helpful programmes to support you in the community"

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When you are talking about supervision under the Sentencing Act 2002, a programme can mean different things. It can be psychiatric or other counselling, or an assessment that is not residential. You can also attend medical, psychological, or social programmes.

A programme can be about education, employment, or rehabilitation, and it is not residential. You might be placed in the care of a person, people, or an agency that the Department of Corrections approves. This can include being cared for by your iwi, hapu, or whanau, or a marae, ethnic or cultural group, or a religious group.

The Department of Corrections chief executive must approve the person or group that cares for you, as stated in section 50. You will be part of a programme that helps you, and it is not a residential programme. The programme is designed to help you in different ways.

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

51Programmes

  1. For the purposes of section 50, programme means any of the following that is not residential in nature:

  2. any psychiatric or other counselling or assessment:
    1. attendance at any medical, psychological, social, therapeutic, cultural, educational, employment-related, rehabilitative, or reintegrative programme:
      1. placement in the care of any appropriate person, persons, or agency, approved by the chief executive of the Department of Corrections, such as, without limitation,—
        1. an iwi, hapu, or whanau:
          1. a marae:
            1. an ethnic or cultural group:
              1. a religious group, such as a church or religious order:
                1. members or particular members of any of the above.

                Notes
                • Section 51: amended, on , by section 20 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).