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Sentencing Act 2002

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70A: Offence to breach conditions of intensive supervision

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"Breaking intensive supervision rules is a crime"

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If you are given a sentence of intensive supervision, you must follow the conditions. You commit an offence if you fail to comply with any condition without a reasonable excuse. This can also happen if you fail to report when required to do so under section 78 or section 80. If you commit this offence, you can be imprisoned for up to 6 months or fined up to $1,500. You will be convicted if you are found guilty of this offence.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Community-based sentences: Offences related to community-based sentences

70AOffence to breach conditions of intensive supervision

  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 intensive supervision; or
    1. fails, without reasonable excuse, to report when required to do so under section 78 or 80.

      Notes
      • Section 70A: inserted, on , by section 34 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
      • Section 70A: amended, on , by section 7 of the Sentencing Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 93).