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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
62Board inquiry—breach of intensive correction order
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62 Board inquiry—breach of intensive correction order
(1) The board may conduct an inquiry to decide whether an offender has
breached any of the offender’s intensive correction order obligations.
(2) The board must hold a hearing for an inquiry—
(a) on application by the director-general; or
(b) after receiving a report from a corrections officer under
section 59 (Corrections officers to report breach of intensive
correction order obligations); or
(c) if the offender is arrested under section 60 (Arrest without
warrant—breach of intensive correction order obligations) or
section 61 (Arrest warrant—breach of intensive correction order
obligations).
(3) This section does not apply if the offender has been convicted of a
new offence punishable by imprisonment.
Note Section 65 requires a court to cancel the offender’s intensive correction
order in certain circumstances.
(4) To remove any doubt, the board may conduct the inquiry in
conjunction with any other inquiry under this Act in relation to the
(5) The board must, as soon as practicable—
(a) tell the director-general of an inquiry conducted under
subsection (2) (c); and
(b) conduct the inquiry.
Intensive correction orders—breach Division 5.6.2