Sentencing Act 1995

approved electronic monitoring device means —

bail means bail under the Bail Act 1982;

breach, in relation to an order made under this Act, means to contravene any requirement or obligation of the order or any direction made by the court imposing the order;

CEO (corrections) means the chief executive officer of the Public Sector agency principally assisting the Minister administering Part 8 of the Sentence Administration Act 2003 in its administration;

community based order (“CBO”) means a community based order made under Part 9;

community corrections centre has the same definition as in the Sentence Administration Act 2003;

community corrections officer (“CCO”) has the same definition as in the Sentence Administration Act 2003;

community order means a CBO or an ISO;

community work includes any form of work, service, or activity approved for the purpose of this definition by the CEO (corrections);

conditional release order (“CRO”) means a conditional release order made under Part 7;

conditional suspended imprisonment (“CSI”) means conditional suspended imprisonment imposed under Part 12 Division 1;

designated family relationship means a relationship between 2 persons —

or

disqualification order means an order made under Part 15;

explosive means a substance or an article that is controlled as an explosive under the Dangerous Goods Safety Act 2004;

family violence offence (category A) means an offence where the offender and the victim are in a designated family relationship with each other at the time of the commission of the offence and the offence is an offence against The Criminal Code section 221BD, 279, 280, 281, 283, 292, 293, 294, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, 313, 317, 317A, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 332, 333, 338A, 338B, 338C, 338E or 444;

family violence offence (category B) means an offence where the offender and the victim are in a designated family relationship with each other at the time of the commission of the offence and the offence is —

family violence restraining order has the meaning given in the Restraining Orders Act 1997 section 3(1);

intensive supervision order (“ISO”) means an intensive supervision order made under Part 10;

offence means an offence under a written law;

offender means a person convicted of an offence;

parole eligibility order has the meaning given in section 89(1);

prescribed means prescribed in the regulations;

pre‑sentence order (“PSO”) means a pre‑sentence order made under Part 3A;

Prisoners Review Board means the Prisoners Review Board established under the Sentence Administration Act 2003;

serial family violence offender means a person who is a serial family violence offender under section 124E;

speciality court means a court —

by the regulations and that is constituted by a judicial officer who is approved by the judicial officer who heads the court so prescribed;

spent conviction order has the meaning given by section 45(2);

statutory penalty, in relation to an offence, means the penalty specified by a written law for the offence;

superior court means the Supreme Court or the District Court;

written reasons includes reasons that are —

CBO for community based order;

CCO for community corrections officer;

CRO for conditional release order;

CSI for conditional suspended imprisonment;

DPP for Director of Public Prosecutions of the State;

ISO for intensive supervision order;

PSO for pre‑sentence order.

[Section 4 amended: No. 50 of 2003 s. 4, 14, 23 and 29(3); No. 84 of 2004 s. 65; No. 27 of 2004 s. 6(1) and (2); No. 65 of 2006 s. 45; No. 45 of 2016 s. 61; No. 13 of 2020 s. 4; No. 30 of 2020 s. 14; No. 28 of 2024 s. 61.]