Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Judicial monitoring

80ZJ: Progress reports

You could also call this:

"Checks on how you're doing during your sentence"

If you get a sentence of intensive supervision or home detention with judicial monitoring, your probation officer will write a report about how you are doing. This report will go to the Judge who gave you the sentence, or another Judge if that's not possible. The report must be given to the Judge within three months of when your sentence started, or when you have served one-third of your sentence, whichever comes first.

The report will say how well you are following the rules of your sentence and if you are making good progress. It can also include other information that the probation officer thinks is important for the Judge to know. The Judge can ask for more reports every few months if they want to keep track of how you are doing.

You can find more information about when your sentence starts in section 75, 76, 80W, 80X, or 80Y. The probation officer will keep writing reports and giving them to the Judge as long as the Judge asks for them, and they will do this at least every three months.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Judicial monitoring

80ZJProgress reports

If the court has imposed a sentence of intensive supervision or home detention and a special condition of that sentence is that the offender be subject to judicial monitoring, the probation officer supervising the offender must give a written progress report to the Judge who sentenced the offender or to any other Judge of that court if for any reason it is impracticable for the sentencing Judge to be given the report.
The progress report must be given to the Judge within 3 months of the date that the sentence commenced under section 75, 76, 80W, 80X, or 80Y (whichever is applicable) or the date at which the offender has served one-third of his or her sentence, whichever is the earlier.
The progress report—
must contain information on the offender's progress and compliance with the sentence; and
may contain any other information that the probation officer considers relevant to the sentence.

The probation officer must prepare and give the Judge further progress reports at specified intervals of not less than 3 months if directed to do so by the Judge.

Notes

Section 80ZJ: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).