Court to take community service order or good behaviour bond into account when sentencing
83 Court to take community service order or good behaviour bond into account when sentencing
In sentencing an offender, the court must, under section 24, also take into account—
in the case of an offender who is being sentenced as a result of failing to comply with the offender’s obligations under a community service order or good behaviour bond to which a clause of Division 2 applies—
the fact that the person has been the subject of such an order or bond, and
anything done by the offender in compliance with the offender’s obligations under the order or bond, and
in the case of an offender who is being sentenced as a result of deciding not to participate in, or to continue to participate in a good behaviour bond to which a clause of Division 2 applies, anything done by the offender in compliance with the offender’s obligations under the good behaviour bond.
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