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Sentencing Act 1995
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7 Sentencing and other orders
Where a court finds a person guilty of an offence, it may, subject to
any specific provision relating to the offence and this Part, make
one or more of the following sentencing orders:
(a) without recording a conviction, order the dismissal of the
charge for the offence;
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(b) without recording a conviction, order the release of the
offender;
(c) record a conviction and order the discharge of the offender;
(d) record a conviction and order the release of the offender;
(e) with or without recording a conviction, order the offender to
pay a fine;
(f) with or without recording a conviction, make a community
correction order for the offender;
(fa) with or without recording a conviction, make a community
correction order for the offender and order the offender to pay
a fine;
(g) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of
imprisonment that is suspended by it wholly or partly;
(h) record a conviction and make an intensive community
correction for the offender;
(k) impose any sentence or make any order authorised by this or
any other Act.