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CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 (NO. 59 OF 2005) - SECT 79

Periodic detention—effect of suspension or cancellation etc

    (1)     This section applies to a decision of the board to suspend or cancel an offender's periodic detention.

    (2)     The decision takes effect—

        (a)     when written notice of the decision is given to the offender under section 77; or

        (b)     if a later date of effect is stated in the notice—on the date stated.

    (3)     If the decision is to suspend the offender's periodic detention—

        (a)     during the suspension, the offender must be imprisoned under full-time detention; and

        (b)     while serving the full-time detention, is taken to comply with the offender's periodic detention obligations.

    (4)     If the decision is to cancel the offender's periodic detention, the cancellation ends the periodic detention period of the offender's sentence of imprisonment and the offender must serve the remainder of the sentence—

        (a)     by full-time detention until when the periodic detention period would have ended apart from the cancellation; and

        (b)     otherwise in accordance with the sentence.



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