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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Home detention

80L: Updated pre-sentence report

You could also call this:

"Updating your report to change your prison sentence to home detention"

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If you are in prison and want to change your sentence to home detention under section 80K, you must let a probation officer update your pre-sentence report with new information. You have to agree to the update for the probation officer to do it. The probation officer will update your report according to the rules in section 26A.

When a probation officer updates your report, they must follow the rules. You agreed to the update when you applied to change your sentence. The update will include any new information about you.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Home detention

80LUpdated pre-sentence report

  1. An offender subject to a sentence of imprisonment who makes an application for substitution of a sentence of home detention under section 80K must agree to a probation officer updating the offender's pre-sentence report with any new information.

  2. If an offender agrees to a probation officer updating the offender's pre-sentence report under subsection (1), the probation officer must update the report in accordance with section 26A.

Notes
  • Section 80L: inserted, on , by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).