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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
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58 Curfew—directions
(1) A curfew condition of an intensive correction order must include
details of the following:
(a) the place where the offender must remain for the curfew;
(b) the period of time (not longer than the offender’s sentence) that
the curfew will be in place.
(2) The director-general may, at any time while a curfew condition is in
effect, direct the offender to remain at a different place for the curfew
if satisfied that each adult who is living at the place, or has parental
responsibility or guardianship for a person who is living at the place,
consents to the place being used for that purpose.
(3) The sentencing court may recommend an amount of time that the
offender should remain at the curfew place each day.
Intensive correction order—curfew Part 5.5
(4) The director-general may, after taking into account any
recommendation of the sentencing court, direct the offender, orally or
in writing, to remain at the curfew place for a period of time (not more
than 12 hours in a 24-hour period) each day.
Max is directed to comply with a curfew. Max may be required to remain at the
curfew place between 10 pm and 7 am, and between 3 pm and 6 pm on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
(5) A direction under this section takes effect—
(6) The offender must comply with a direction under this section.
curfew place means—
(a) the place detailed in the curfew condition under
subsection (1) (a); or
(b) if the director-general directs the offender to remain at a
different place under subsection (2)—the different place.
Division 5.6.1 Intensive correction orders—supervision
Part 5.6 Supervising intensive correction
Division 5.6.1 Intensive correction orders—
supervision
59 Corrections officers to report breach of intensive
correction order obligations
grounds that an offender has breached any of the offender’s intensive
correction order obligations.
(2) The corrections officer must report the belief to—
(b) if the belief is that the offender was convicted or found guilty of
an offence mentioned in section 65 (1) by a court other than an
ACT court—the sentencing court.
(3) A report under this section must be made in writing and set out the
grounds for the corrections officer’s belief.