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CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 (NO. 59 OF 2005) - SECT 264

Meaning of community-based sentence

    (1)     A "community-based sentence "is—

        (a)     for this jurisdiction—any of the following:

              (i)     a periodic detention period;

              (ii)     a good behaviour order;

              (iii)     a sentence declared by regulation to be a community-based sentence; and

        (b)     for an interstate jurisdiction—a sentence that is a community-based sentence under the corresponding community-based sentence law of the jurisdiction.

    (2)     For subsection (1) (a), the following are taken to be a single community-based sentence:

        (a)     a periodic detention period and the sentence of imprisonment for which the period is set;

        (b)     a suspended sentence order under the Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005 , section 12 (2), the good behaviour order for the suspended sentence order and the sentence of imprisonment for the suspended sentence order;

        (c)     a combination of 2 or more sentences prescribed by regulation.



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