New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 69

69 Assessment of suitability of offender for intensive correction order

(1) In deciding whether or not to make an intensive correction order, the sentencing court is to have regard to--

(a) the contents of any assessment report obtained in relation to the offender, and

(b) evidence from a community corrections officer and any other information before the court that the court considers necessary for the purpose of deciding whether to make such an order.

(2) Subject to section 73A (3), the sentencing court is not bound by the assessment report.

(3) The sentencing court may not make an intensive correction order in respect of an offender who resides, or intends to reside, in another State or Territory, unless the State or Territory is declared by the regulations to be an approved jurisdiction.