Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies if a young offender has been convicted or found guilty of an offence.
(2) The court may make an order (a therapeutic correction order ) that requires the young offender to comply with the therapeutic correction conditions of the order.
(3) The court must not make a therapeutic correction order if the young offender is subject to any other sentencing order.
(4) The court must not fail to impose a sentence that the circumstances of the offence would ordinarily require only to allow the court to make a therapeutic correction order.
(5) If the court makes a therapeutic correction order, the court must, as soon as practicable after the order is made, ensure that written notice of the order, together with a copy of the order, is given to the young offender.
(6) Failure to comply with subsection (5) does not invalidate the therapeutic correction order .
(7) This section is subject to divisions 8A.2A.3 and 8A.2A.4.
(8) In this section:
"sentencing order" means any of the following:
(a) an order for imprisonment by full-time detention;
(b) a suspended sentence order;
(c) an intensive correction order;
(d) a deferred sentence order;
(e) a parole order;
(f) an order under a law in force in Australia that corresponds to an order mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e).