Sentencing Act 2007 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Sentencing Act 2007

No. 14, 2007

Compilation No. 4

Compilation date: 10 July 2021

Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015) as amended up to Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Criminal and Civil Matters) Ordinance 2021 (F2021L00975)

NORFOLK ISLAND

SENTENCING ACT 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Heading Page PART 1 – PRELIMINARY............................................1 1. Short title.................................................1 2. Commencement............................................1 3. Interpretation..............................................1 …. PART 2 – GENERAL PRINCIPLES....................................2 5. Sentencing guidelines.......................................2 6. Factors to be considered in determining offender's character.........4 6A. Young offenders - notice of orders to parents, etc.................4 PART 3 – SENTENCES...............................................5 Division 1 – General................................................5 7. Sentencing and other orders..................................5 8. Conviction or non-conviction.................................5 Division 2 – Dismissals, Discharges and Bonds..........................6 Subdivision 1 – General.............................................6 9. Purpose of orders under this Division...........................6 Subdivision 2 – Release without Conviction.............................6 10. Unconditional dismissal.....................................6 11. Release on bond without conviction............................6 Subdivision 3 – Release on Conviction.................................6 12. Unconditional discharge.....................................6 13. Release on bond following conviction..........................7 Subdivision 4 – Variation and Breach of Orders for Release on Bond.......7 14. Variation of order for release on bond..........................7 15. Breach of order for release on bond............................8 Division 3 – Fines..................................................8 16. Additional power to fine.....................................8 16A. Corporate multiplier for fines.................................9 17. Exercise of power to fine....................................9 18. Aggregate fines............................................10 19. Time for payment of fine....................................10 20. Application of fine, etc......................................10 21. Court may order commitment in default.........................10 Division 4 – Community service orders................................11 22. Interpretation for this Division................................11 23. Imposition of community service orders.........................11 24. Court not to impose community service order in certain cases........13 25. Court may make community service order only with consent, etc.....13 26. Court to specify period in which community service work is to be performed 13 27. Appointment, etc, of supervisors...............................13 28. Service worker to present to supervisor .........................13 29. Court may specify conditions in community service order to be complied with 13 30. Court to explain community service order to convicted person.......13 31. Copies of community service order to be served on certain persons...13 32. Work to be performed under community service order.............13 33. Supervisor to have regard to certain matters......................14 34. Period in respect of which community service order remains in force..14 35. Revocation, etc, of community service orders....................14 36. Further offences by service worker.............................15 37. Failure to comply with community service order..................15 38. Work under community service order to be taken into account, etc....16 Division 5 – Custodial Orders........................................16 Subdivision 1 – Suspended Sentences of Imprisonment...................16 39. Suspended sentence of imprisonment...........................16 40. Effect of suspended sentence................................17 41. Variation of order conditionally suspending sentence.............17 42. Breach of order suspending sentence..........................18 Subdivision 2 – Home Detention Orders..............................20 43. Home detention order.......................................20 44. Circumstances in which home detention order may be made.........20 45. Where more than one home detention order made.................21 46. Review of home detention order..............................21 47. Breach of home detention order..............................21 Subdivision 3 - Periodic detention....................................23 48 Definitions................................................23 49 Power to order periodic detention..............................23 50 Core conditions............................................24 51 Circumstances in which periodic detention order may be made.......25 52 Detainee taken to be in lawful custody.........................25 53 Periodic detention - concurrent and cumulative sentences..........25 54 Notice to detainee.........................................25 55 Commencement of sentence.................................26 56 Service of sentence........................................26 57 Work, etc................................................26 58 Variation of days of attendance...............................27 59 Variation of times of attendance..............................27 60 Officer in charge to give notice...............................27 61 Commencement of certain orders.............................27 62 Effect of complying with certain orders........................27 63 Detainee unfit for detention..................................28 64 Leave of absence..........................................28 65 Extension of detention......................................28 66 Variation of sentence on compassionate grounds.................28 67 Directions...............................................29 68 Detainee not an employee...................................29 69 Cancellation on subsequent conviction.........................29 70 Cancellation otherwise than on subsequent conviction.............29 71 Certain effects of cancellation of order for periodic detention.......30 72 Conditional release........................................30 73 Escape from detention......................................31 74 Offences................................................31 75 Delegation by officer in charge...............................32 76 Declaration of centres......................................32 77 Custodial officers.........................................32 78 Powers and duties of officers................................32 79 Entitlements of detainees...................................32 80 Discipline...............................................32 81 Clothing and body searches..................................32 82 Use of force..............................................33 83 Medical treatment.........................................33 84 Inspection of centres........................................34 85 Offences by persons other than detainees.......................34 Subdivision 4 – Imprisonment.......................................34 86. Term of imprisonment where none prescribed...................34 87. Imprisonment to be served concurrently unless otherwise ordered...34 88. Cumulative orders of imprisonment...........................34 89. Aggregate sentences of imprisonment.........................34 90. Imprisonment for life......................................35 91. Non-parole periods for crime of murder........................35 92. Non-parole periods for other offences.........................36 93. Offenders already imprisoned when sentenced...................37 94. Fixing of non‑parole period for sentences imposed before commencement 38 …. 100. Commencement of sentences of imprisonment...................38 101. Calculation of term of imprisonment..........................39 Division 7 – Imprisonment for violent offences.........................40 118. Imprisonment for violent offences............................40 Division 8 – Imprisonment for sexual offences.........................40 119. Imprisonment for sexual offences.............................40 PART 4 – ORDERS IN ADDITION TO SENTENCE......................40 Division 1 – Restitution and Compensation Orders......................40 120. Application of this Division..................................40 121. Orders for restitution and compensation.........................40 122. Reimbursement of costs of restoring property, etc.................40 123. Making of order............................................41 124. Application for order.......................................41 125. Form of order............................................41 126. Imprisonment for breach of order.............................41 127. Extension of time of order...................................42 128. Payment of compensation by instalment........................42 129. Application by person against whom order made.................42 130. Orders not to affect other rights..............................42 Division 2 – Other Orders..........................................42 131. Cancellation of driver's licence...............................42 132. Passport orders...........................................42 133. Forfeiture of property orders.................................43 PART 5 – MAKING OF SENTENCING AND OTHER ORDERS...........43 Division 1 – Conditional Orders.....................................43 134. Condition of order to undertake treatment program...............43 135. Consent of offender to conditional order.......................43 136. Explanation of orders......................................43 Division 2 – Information and Reports before Passing Sentence............44 Subdivision 1 – Information, Reports, etc.............................44 137. Assessment of offender before certain orders made...............44 138. Information before passing sentence or making order.............44 139. Court may order pre-sentence report...........................44 140. Contents of pre-sentence report...............................44 Subdivision 2 – Victim Impact Statements and Victim Reports...........45 141. Definitions................................................45 142. Victim impact statements and victim reports......................45 Division 3 – Taking Other Charges into Account.......................46 143. Disposal of other pending charges............................46 Division 4 – Passing of Sentence.....................................47 144. Time and place of sentence..................................47 145. Sentence by another Judge or Magistrate.......................48 146. Sentences not invalidated by failure to comply with procedural requirements 49 PART 6 - PAROLE...............................................49 147. Definitions...............................................49 148. Evidentiary..............................................50 149. Functions of Board........................................50 150. Reports.................................................50 151. Release on parole after service of non-parole period..............51 152. Persons on parole deemed still under sentence...................51 153 Cancellation of parole......................................52 154. Prisoners may be released on parole more than once..............53 155. Board to inform Registrar of parole orders......................53 156. Requests for registration of transferred parole orders..............53 157. Documents to accompany requests............................53 158. Regard for interests of parolee...............................54 159. Registration..............................................54 160. Effect of registration.......................................55 161. Effect of transfer of parole order..............................55 162. Evidence................................................56 PART 7 – CORRECTION OF SENTENCES............................56 163. Correction of sentences by Supreme Court......................56 164. Court may reopen proceeding to correct sentencing errors..........56 PART 8 – APPEALS AGAINST SENTENCE IMPOSED ON VARIATION OR BREACH 57 165. Appeal against sentence imposed on variation or breach...........57 PART 9 – MISCELLANEOUS........................................57 166. Offender to be present when sentence imposed..................57 168. Lesser sentence may be imposed.............................57 169. Effect of alterations in penalties..............................57 170. Jurisdiction of Court of Petty Sessions.........................58 171. Old offences relevant in determining previous convictions.........58 172. Abolition of common law bonds..............................58 173. Procedural rules and regulations..............................58 174. Facilitation of proof........................................58 175. Service of documents, etc...................................59 176. Regulations..............................................59 177. Repeal..................................................59 178. Savings and transitional....................................59 SCHEDULE 1.......................................................60 SCHEDULE 2......................................................60 SCHEDULE 3......................................................60