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Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999
17HCurfew conditions under multiple orders
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#### 17H Curfew conditions under multiple orders
17H Curfew conditions under multiple orders
> > (1) This section applies where 2 or more curfew conditions apply under 2 or more relevant orders in respect of the same period of 24 hours (the period of 24 hours).
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> > Curfew conditions can be imposed on intensive correction orders and community correction orders, but cannot be imposed on conditional release orders.
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> > (2) If all the relevant orders are intensive correction orders, this section does not affect the curfew conditions.
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> > (3) If all the relevant orders are community correction orders, the following provisions apply—
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> > > (a) The offender cannot be required to observe a curfew in respect of more than 12 hours in the period of 24 hours. Any excess is to be disregarded.
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> > > (b) The offender is required in the period of 24 hours to observe only the curfew imposed by the 1 curfew condition that specifies more hours than the other or others.
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> > (4) If at least 1 of the relevant orders is an intensive correction order and at least 1 is a community correction order, the following provisions apply—
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> > > (a) This section does not affect any curfew condition imposed on an intensive correction order.
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> > > (b) The offender cannot be required, as a result of the curfew conditions imposed on the relevant orders, to observe a curfew in respect of more than the greater of—
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> > > > (i) the hours required by curfew conditions imposed on the intensive correction order or intensive correction orders in the period of 24 hours, or
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> > > > (ii) 12 hours in the period of 24 hours.
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> > > Any excess is to be disregarded.
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> > > (c) In determining the number of hours under 2 or more curfew conditions imposed on 2 or more community correction orders, regard is to be had only to the 1 curfew condition that specifies more hours than the other or others.
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> > (5) The regulations under the [Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1999-093) may make provision for or with respect to the manner of determining numbers of hours for the purposes of this section and any excess to be disregarded under this section.
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> **pt 2, div 4C (ss 17E–17J):** Ins 2017 No 53, Sch 1 \[17\].