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Sentencing Act 2002

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

54J: Offender to be under supervision of probation officer

You could also call this:

"Someone on intensive supervision must follow a probation officer's guidance"

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If you get a sentence of intensive supervision, you will be under the supervision of a probation officer. This officer will be from the area where you live, or they might be someone the chief executive of the Department of Corrections chooses. You can find more information about the laws related to this in the Sentencing Act 2002 and the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007.

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

54JOffender to be under supervision of probation officer

  1. An offender who is subject to a sentence of intensive supervision is under the supervision of a probation officer in the probation area in which the offender resides for the time being, or of any other probation officer that the chief executive of the Department of Corrections may direct.

Notes
  • Section 54J: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).