Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Home detention

80D: Special conditions of sentence of home detention

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"Rules you must follow at home to help you stay out of trouble"

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When you get a sentence of home detention, there are standard conditions you must follow. The court can also add special conditions to your sentence. The court can add these special conditions if they think you might offend again, and the standard conditions are not enough to stop this. The court wants to help you not offend again by adding conditions that will help you rehabilitate and reintegrate into society.

The special conditions can include things like managing your finances, taking prescription medication, or joining a programme. A programme is an activity or set of activities that can help you change your behaviour, as described in section 54H. You might also have conditions that stop you from doing certain things, like using controlled drugs, psychoactive substances, or alcohol.

The court can also add a condition that requires you to comply with judicial monitoring, as directed by a probation officer or the sentencing Judge, under subpart 2B. This means you will have to follow the directions of the probation officer or the Judge to make sure you are complying with your sentence. The court can add any other conditions they think will help reduce the likelihood of you offending again.

If the court wants you to take prescription medication as a special condition, you must be fully advised about the medication and its effects, and you must consent to taking it. You can withdraw your consent to take the medication, but this might affect your sentence of home detention, as described in section 80F and section 80S. The court cannot make you pay a fine or do community work as a special condition of your home detention sentence.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Home detention

80DSpecial conditions of sentence of home detention

  1. In addition to the standard conditions that apply under section 80C, the court may, subject to subsections (2), (3), and (7), impose 1 or more special conditions described in subsection (4).

  2. A court may impose any of the special conditions described in subsection (4) if the court is satisfied that—

  3. there is a significant risk of further offending by the offender; and
    1. standard conditions alone would not adequately reduce the risk; and
      1. the imposition of special conditions would reduce the likelihood of further offending by the offender through the rehabilitation and reintegration of the offender.
        1. A court may only impose a condition of the kind described in subsection (4)(d) (which relates to judicial monitoring) if it is also satisfied that, because of the special circumstances of the offender, this is necessary to assist the offender's compliance with the sentence.

        2. The special conditions referred to in subsection (1) or (2) are—

        3. any conditions that the court thinks fit relating to the offender's finances or earnings:
          1. conditions requiring the offender to take prescription medication:
            1. conditions relating to a programme:
              1. conditions prohibiting the offender from doing 1 or more of the following:
                1. using (as defined in section 4(1)) a controlled drug:
                  1. using a psychoactive substance:
                    1. consuming alcohol:
                    2. a condition requiring the offender to comply with the requirements of judicial monitoring under subpart 2B as directed by a probation officer or the sentencing Judge:
                      1. any other conditions that the court thinks fit to reduce the likelihood of further offending by the offender.
                        1. For the purposes of subsection (4), programme has the same meaning as in section 54H.

                        2. No court may impose a condition under this section that—

                        3. the offender pay any fine, reparation, or other sum ordered to be paid on conviction; or
                          1. the offender perform any service that he or she could have been required to perform if he or she had been sentenced to community work.
                            1. No offender may be made subject to a special condition that requires the offender to take prescription medication unless the offender—

                            2. has been fully advised, by a person who is qualified to prescribe that medication, about the nature and likely or intended effect of the medication and any known risks; and
                              1. consents to taking the prescription medication.
                                1. An offender does not breach his or her detention conditions for the purposes of section 80S if he or she withdraws consent to taking prescription medication; but the failure to take the medication may give rise to a ground for variation or cancellation of the sentence of home detention under section 80F.

                                Notes
                                • Section 80D: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
                                • Section 80D(4)(ca): inserted, on , by section 10 of the Sentencing (Drug and Alcohol Testing) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 85).