A court may not impose a condition on a supervision order under the Serious Sex Offenders (Detention and Supervision) Act 2009 where the sole or principal purpose of the condition is administrative convenience or the good order of a residential facility, as such purposes fall outside ss 15(4) and (5) of the Act. The power to manage good order of a residential facility is vested in supervision officers under s 137, not in court-imposed conditions. The fact that court-ordered conditions may be easier to enforce than supervision officer instructions does not justify imposing conditions for purposes outside the Act.
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