17Registration of sentence

17 Registration of sentence

(1)  The Minister must direct the Registrar to register a community-based sentence under this Part, if the Minister is satisfied that –

(a) the mandatory precondition to which the sentence is subject under section 15(4) ; and

(b) any individual preconditions to which the sentence is subject under section 15(5)  –

have been satisfied.

(2)  The Minister must not direct the Registrar to register a community-based sentence under this Part unless the Minister is satisfied that the offender has not withdrawn under section 16 his or her consent to the registration of the sentence.

(3)  The Minister may, in a direction under subsection (1) , direct the Registrar to register a community-based sentence under this Part as a community-based sentence that is to be taken to be –

(a) a community service order within the meaning of the Sentencing Act 1997 ; or

(ab) [Section 17 Subsection (3) amended by No. 51 of 2017, s. 22, Applied:14 Dec 2018] a community correction order within the meaning of the Sentencing Act 1997 ; or

(b) a probation order within the meaning of the Sentencing Act 1997 ; or 

(c) a member of a class of sentences, specified in the direction, that has been prescribed in regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of "community-based sentence" in section 3 .

(4)  If the Registrar is directed under subsection (1) to register a community-based sentence under this Part, he or she must –

(a) register the sentence by entering in the part of the register referred to in section 5(3) the details of the offender and the sentence, including the details of any direction given in accordance with ; and