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Sentencing Act 1991
40Community correction order may cover multiple offences
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40 Community correction order may cover multiple offences
(1) If an offender is convicted or found guilty by a court of two or more offences, which are founded on the same facts or form or are part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, the court may make one community correction order in respect of those offences in place of separate orders in respect of all or any two or more of them.
(2) A community correction order that is being made in respect of more than one offence must not exceed the maximum period for which a community correction order may be made under section 38.
S. 41 substituted by No. 65/2011 s. 21.