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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
163Actions by community corrections officer on breach of intensive correction order
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#### 163 Actions by community corrections officer on breach of intensive correction order
163 Actions by community corrections officer on breach of intensive correction order
> > (1) This section applies if the Commissioner or a community corrections officer is satisfied that an offender has failed to comply with the offender’s obligations under an intensive correction order.
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> > (2) A community corrections officer may take any of the following actions—
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> > > (a) record the breach and take no further action,
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> > > (b) give an informal warning to the offender,
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> > > (c) give, or arrange to be given to, the offender a formal warning that further breaches will result in referral to the Parole Authority,
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> > > (d) give a reasonable direction to the offender relating to the kind of behaviour by the offender that caused the breach,
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> > > (e) impose a curfew on the offender of up to 12 hours in any 24-hour period.
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> > (3) As an alternative, or in addition, to taking any such action, the Commissioner or a community corrections officer may decide to refer the breach to the Parole Authority because of the serious nature of the breach and may also make a recommendation as to the action that the Parole Authority may take in respect of the offender.
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> > (4) In deciding whether and what action should be taken in respect of the offender’s breach of the intensive correction order, a community corrections officer may have regard to any action previously taken in respect of the breach or any earlier breaches of the order.
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> > (5) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to any action that may be taken by a community corrections officer under this section.
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> **s 163:** Am 2000 No 110, Sch 1 \[35\] \[36\]; 2002 No 74, Sch 1 \[4\]–\[8\]; 2004 No 47, Sch 1 \[23\]; 2004 No 94, Sch 1 \[40\]. Subst 2010 No 48, Sch 2 \[13\]; 2017 No 53, Sch 3 \[19\].