Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Home detention

80C: Detention conditions applying to offender sentenced to home detention

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"Rules you must follow if you're sentenced to stay at home as punishment"

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If you are sentenced to home detention, you must follow certain rules. You will be supervised by a probation officer and must do what they tell you to do. You must stay at your home detention address at all times, except in certain situations, such as when you need urgent medical treatment or when a probation officer says you can leave. You must also keep a copy of your home detention order with you and show it to a probation officer or police officer if they ask to see it. You are not allowed to leave New Zealand without a probation officer's permission. A probation officer can also tell you to let them collect information about you, such as fingerprints, and you must agree to be monitored electronically to make sure you are following the rules. You must stay in a certain area defined by your probation officer when you are being electronically monitored. You can only work or do certain activities if a probation officer says it is okay. You might also have to meet with a probation officer to talk about what you need to do to stay out of trouble and become a productive member of society. In some cases, a probation officer can let you leave your home detention address for a few hours a day, but only if you have already served most of your sentence. If you have to wear an electronic monitor, a probation officer will show you the area where you are allowed to go and tell the people you live with about this area. You can find more information about home detention in section 80D, section 80ZC, section 80H, section 80F, and section 26A(4)(a).

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Home detention

80CDetention conditions applying to offender sentenced to home detention

  1. An offender who is serving a sentence of home detention is subject to detention conditions comprising—

  2. the standard conditions set out in subsection (2); and
    1. any special conditions that may be imposed by the court under section 80D.
      1. The standard conditions for a sentence of home detention are that—

      2. the offender is under the supervision of a probation officer and must co-operate with the probation officer and comply with any lawful direction given by that probation officer; and
        1. the offender must not leave the home detention residence at any time except in the circumstances set out in subsections (3), (4), and (5); and
          1. the offender must keep in his or her possession the order drawn up under section 80ZC and, if requested to do so by a constable or a probation officer, must produce the order for inspection; and
            1. the offender must not leave or attempt to leave New Zealand without the prior written consent of a probation officer:
              1. the offender must, if a probation officer directs, allow the collection of biometric information:
                1. the offender must, when required by a probation officer, submit to the electronic monitoring of compliance with his or her detention conditions; and
                  1. the offender must, if required to submit to the electronic monitoring of his or her sentence, remain within the area defined by the probation officer; and
                    1. the offender must not engage, or continue to engage, in any employment or occupation in which a probation officer has directed the offender not to engage or continue to engage; and
                      1. the offender must not associate with any specified person, or with persons of any specified class, with whom a probation officer has, in writing, directed the offender not to associate; and
                        1. the offender must take part in a rehabilitative and reintegrative needs assessment if and when directed to do so by a probation officer.
                          1. An offender may leave the home detention residence only—

                          2. to seek urgent medical or dental treatment; or
                            1. to avoid or minimise a serious risk of death or injury to the offender or any other person; or
                              1. with the approval of a probation officer—
                                1. to comply with any special condition; or
                                  1. to seek or engage in employment; or
                                    1. to attend training or other rehabilitative or reintegrative activities or programmes; or
                                      1. to attend a restorative justice conference or other process relating to the offender's offending; or
                                        1. to carry out any undertaking arising from any restorative justice process; or
                                          1. for any other purpose specifically approved by the probation officer.
                                          2. A probation officer may approve an alternative residence under section 80H pending determination of an application to vary the residence under section 80F.

                                          3. In addition to absences authorised under subsection (3), a probation officer may authorise an offender, who has served at least three quarters of a sentence of home detention of 6 months or more, to be absent from the home detention residence for up to 4 hours a day without a specified purpose for any or all days remaining to be served under the sentence.

                                          4. A probation officer must define the area within which an offender subject to electronic monitoring is required to remain at the home detention residence and show that area to the offender and advise the relevant occupants (as defined in section 26A(4)(a)) of that area.

                                          5. For the purposes of subsection (5), an offender who is subject to 2 or more sentences of home detention is eligible when he or she has served the longer of—

                                          6. three quarters of the longest of any concurrent sentences of home detention imposed on the offender; or
                                            1. three quarters of the notional single sentence of home detention that is created when sentences of home detention are ordered to be served concurrently or cumulatively.
                                              Notes
                                              • Section 80C: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
                                              • Section 80C(2)(c): amended, on , pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).
                                              • Section 80C(2)(ca): inserted, on , by section 63 of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 42).
                                              • Section 80C(2)(cb): inserted, on , by section 63 of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Act 2017 (2017 No 42).
                                              • Section 80C(2)(da): inserted, on , by section 34(1) of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).
                                              • Section 80C(5A): inserted, on , by section 34(2) of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).