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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Home detention

80E: Electronic monitoring

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"Wearing an electronic tracker to make sure you follow the rules and stay where you're supposed to"

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The purpose of an electronic monitoring condition is to stop you from breaking rules about where you are, and to check that you are following those rules. This condition can be imposed under section 80C(2)(d). If you have this condition, information about you can be used to check you are following the rules and to detect if you are not. You can be checked to see if you are following detention conditions, and if you are committing offences. Information about you can also be used as evidence if you break the rules or commit offences. Your electronic monitoring equipment will be checked to make sure you have not tampered with it, so it can work correctly and accurately.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Home detention

80EElectronic monitoring

  1. The purpose of an electronic monitoring condition imposed as a condition under section 80C(2)(d) is to deter the offender from breaching conditions that relate to his or her whereabouts, and to monitor compliance with those conditions.

  2. Information about an offender that is obtained through electronic monitoring may be used both for the purposes referred to in subsection (1) and for the following purposes:

  3. to verify compliance with any detention conditions:
    1. to detect non-compliance with any detention conditions and the commission of offences:
      1. to provide evidence of non-compliance with detention conditions and the commission of offences:
        1. to verify that the offender has not tampered or otherwise interfered with the ability of the electronic monitoring equipment to operate effectively and accurately.

          Notes
          • Section 80E: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).
          • Section 80E(1): amended, on , by section 8 of the Sentencing (Electronic Monitoring of Offenders) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 47).