Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
263Community-based sentence transfer—definitions ch 12
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263 Community-based sentence transfer—definitions ch 12 community-based sentence—see section 264. corresponding community-based sentence law—see section 267. interstate authority—see section 268. interstate jurisdiction—see section 265. interstate sentence—see section 266. jurisdiction—see section 265. local authority—see section 268. local register—see section 271. local sentence—see section 266. offender, for a community-based sentence, means the person on whom the sentence was imposed. originating jurisdiction, for a community-based sentence, means the jurisdiction where the sentence was originally imposed. participating jurisdiction—see section 265. registration criteria—see section 276. sentence means an order, decision or other sentence (however described), and includes part of a sentence. serve a sentence includes— (a) comply with or satisfy the sentence; or (b) do anything else in accordance with the sentence. this jurisdiction—see section 265.
Part 12.2 Transfer of community-based sentences—important concepts Part 12.2 Transfer of community-based sentences—important concepts 264 Meaning of community-based sentence (1) A community-based sentence is— (a) for this jurisdiction—any of the following: (i) an intensive correction order; (ii) a drug and alcohol treatment order; (iii) a good behaviour order; (iv) a sentence declared by regulation to be a community-based sentence; and (b) for an interstate jurisdiction—a sentence that is a community-based sentence under the corresponding community-based sentence law of the jurisdiction. (2) For subsection (1) (a), the following are taken to be a single community-based sentence: (a) an intensive correction order; (b) a suspended sentence order under the Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005, section 12 (2), the good behaviour order for the suspended sentence order and the sentence of imprisonment for the suspended sentence order; (c) a combination of 2 or more sentences prescribed by regulation.