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CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 - SECT 80

Intensive correction orders—outstanding warrants—extension of sentence

    (1)     This section applies if a warrant is issued for an offender's arrest under this chapter.

    (2)     This section also applies if a warrant is issued for an offender's arrest under section 206 (2), because—

        (a)     the offender failed to appear before the board in accordance with a notice under section 63 (Notice of inquiry—breach of intensive correction order obligations); or

        (b)     a judicial member of the board considers that an offender will not appear before the board in accordance with a notice under section 63.

    (3)     For each period during which a warrant is outstanding and the offender is not in custody (an "outstanding warrant period")—

        (a)     the offender is taken not to perform their sentence by intensive correction; and

        (b)     the term of the offender's intensive correction order, and the term of the sentence, are automatically extended by the outstanding warrant period.

    (4)     In this section:

"in custody" means—

        (a)     remanded in custody under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth or a State; or

        (b)     detained at a place under the Mental Health Act 2015

.

Note     State includes the Northern Territory (see Legislation Act

, dict, pt 1).



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