sec.3Purposes

### sec.3 Purposes The purposes of this Act include— collecting into a single Act general powers of courts to sentence offenders; and providing for a sufficient range of sentences for the appropriate punishment and rehabilitation of offenders, and, in appropriate circumstances, ensuring that protection of the Queensland community is a paramount consideration; and encouraging particular offenders to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in proceedings or investigations about major criminal offences; and promoting consistency of approach in the sentencing of offenders; and providing fair procedures— for imposing sentences; and for dealing with offenders who contravene the conditions of their sentence; and providing sentencing principles that are to be applied by courts; and making provision so that offenders are not imprisoned for non-payment of fines without the opportunity of obtaining a fine option order; and promoting public understanding of sentencing practices and procedures; and generally reforming the sentencing laws of Queensland; and providing for the imposition of an offender levy. s 3 amd 1997 No. 4 s 4 ; 2012 No. 17 s 32 ; 2016 No. 62 s 271 - (a) collecting into a single Act general powers of courts to sentence offenders; and - (b) providing for a sufficient range of sentences for the appropriate punishment and rehabilitation of offenders, and, in appropriate circumstances, ensuring that protection of the Queensland community is a paramount consideration; and - (c) encouraging particular offenders to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in proceedings or investigations about major criminal offences; and - (d) promoting consistency of approach in the sentencing of offenders; and - (e) providing fair procedures— (i) for imposing sentences; and (ii) for dealing with offenders who contravene the conditions of their sentence; and - (i) for imposing sentences; and - (ii) for dealing with offenders who contravene the conditions of their sentence; and - (f) providing sentencing principles that are to be applied by courts; and - (g) making provision so that offenders are not imprisoned for non-payment of fines without the opportunity of obtaining a fine option order; and - (h) promoting public understanding of sentencing practices and procedures; and - (i) generally reforming the sentencing laws of Queensland; and - (j) providing for the imposition of an offender levy. - (i) for imposing sentences; and - (ii) for dealing with offenders who contravene the conditions of their sentence; and