Sentencing Act 1995
7Sentencing and other orders
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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;
Sentencing Act 1995 11 (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.