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Sentencing Act 2002

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

54H: Programmes

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"Programmes: Activities to help you while on intensive supervision"

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When you are on intensive supervision, you might have to take part in a programme. A programme can be many things, such as getting psychiatric or counselling help, or attending a medical or therapeutic programme. You might also have to go to a programme that helps you with education, employment, or rehabilitation.

You could be placed in the care of a person, people, or an agency that the Department of Corrections approves. This could be an iwi, hapū, or whānau, a marae, an ethnic or cultural group, or a religious group. The chief executive of the Department of Corrections decides who is approved to care for you, as stated in section 54G.

This is all part of what is meant by a programme when you are on intensive supervision.

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

54HProgrammes

  1. For the purposes of section 54G, programme means any of the following (whether residential or non-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, and without limitation,—
        1. an iwi, hapū, or whānau:
          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 54H: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).