Aggravated property offences
78B Aggravated property offences
A court that finds a person guilty of an aggravated property offence must take into account the purpose of this Division before sentencing the person in relation to the offence.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances in relation to the offence or the offender, a court that records a conviction against an offender found guilty of an aggravated property offence must:
order the offender to serve a term of imprisonment that is not suspended in whole or in part; or
make an intensive community correction order in relation to the offender and make the order subject to a home detention condition; or
make a community correction order or an intensive community correction order in relation to the offender and make the order subject to a condition that the offender must participate, for the number of hours specified in the order not exceeding 480 hours, in an approved project as directed by a probation and parole officer.
Nothing in subsection (2) is to be taken to affect the power of a court to make any other order authorised by or under this or any other Act, including a community correction order or an intensive community correction order subject to other conditions in addition to the conditions mentioned in subsection (2), in addition to an order made in accordance with the subsection.
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