Sentencing Act 2002

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

69G: Offence to breach conditions of community detention

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"Breaking community detention rules is a crime"

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If you break the rules of your community detention, you can get in trouble. You will commit an offence if you fail to comply with any condition of your community detention without a good reason. You can also get in trouble if you fail to report when you are required to do so under section 78 or section 80 without a good reason. If you are found guilty, you could go to prison for up to 6 months or have to pay a fine of up to $1,500. You must follow the rules of your community detention to avoid getting in trouble.

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

69GOffence to breach conditions of community detention

  1. An offender commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding $1,500, who—

  2. fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any condition of a sentence of community detention; or
    1. fails, without reasonable excuse, to report when required to do so under section 78 or 80.
      Notes
      • Section 69G: inserted, on , by section 33 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
      • Section 69G: amended, on , by section 7 of the Sentencing Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 93).