New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 33

33 Outstanding charges may be taken into account

(1) When dealing with the offender for the principal offence, the court is to ask the offender whether the offender wants the court to take any further offences into account in dealing with the offender for the principal offence.

(2) The court may take a further offence into account in dealing with the offender for the principal offence--

(a) if the offender--

(i) admits guilt to the further offence, and

(ii) indicates that the offender wants the court to take the further offence into account in dealing with the offender for the principal offence, and

(b) if, in all of the circumstances, the court considers it appropriate to do so.

(3) If the court takes a further offence into account, the penalty imposed on the offender for the principal offence must not exceed the maximum penalty that the court could have imposed for the principal offence had the further offence not been taken into account.

(4) A court may not take a further offence into account--

(a) if the offence is of a kind for which the court has no jurisdiction to impose a penalty, or

(b) if the offence is an indictable offence that is punishable with imprisonment for life.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) (a), a court is taken to have jurisdiction to impose a penalty for an offence even if that jurisdiction may only be exercised with the consent of the offender.

(6) Despite subsection (4) (a), the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the District Court may take a summary offence into account.