Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1999 (NO. 32 OF 1999) - SECT 27

    Section 428T of the Principal Act is amended—

        (a)     by inserting in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) “or mentally ill” after “dysfunctional”;

        (b)     by inserting in subsection (2) “or mentally ill” after “dysfunctional”; and

        (c)     by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(4)     If the relevant court orders a person who is found by the tribunal to be mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill to be sentenced to a period of imprisonment, the court shall not order the person to be imprisoned for a period greater than any period of imprisonment to which the person could have been sentenced, but for that finding.”.