Penalties and Sentences Act 1992

In imposing a sentence on an offender, a court may receive any information, including a report mentioned in the Corrective Services Act 2006, section 344, or a sentencing submission made by a party to the proceedings, that it considers appropriate to enable it to impose the proper sentence.

Also, without limiting subsection (1), in imposing a sentence on an offender, a court may receive any information, or a sentencing submission made by a party to the proceedings, that the court considers appropriate to enable it to decide—

whether it may make a control order for the offender under part 9D, division 3; or

the appropriate conditions of a control order it must, or may, make for the offender under part 9D, division 3.

An authorised corrective services officer must not, in any information or report, recommend that a fine option order or community based order should not be made for an offender merely because of—

any physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability of the offender; or

the offender’s sex, educational level or religious beliefs.

In this section—