A sentencing court imposing parole conditions relating to treatment must first obtain a report from a Probation and Parole Officer as required by cl 6(1) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Regulation; failure to do so renders the conditions invalid even where the court has other material before it that might serve the same purpose. Where a sentence is structured as an integrated whole with conditions that are found to be invalid, the entire sentence will be quashed rather than selectively modified.
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