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Sentencing Act 1997
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### 42AP Special conditions
> [*\[Section 42AP Inserted by No. 51 of 2017, s. 15, Applied:14 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-14/act-2017-051#GS15@EN)
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> > (1) A community correction order may include any or all of the following conditions:
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> > > > (a) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, appear before the court at the places, days and times, that the court specifies in the order;
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> > > > (b) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, attend educational and other programs as directed by the court or a probation officer;
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> > > > (c) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, submit to the supervision of a probation officer as required by the probation officer;
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> > > > (d) the offender must, within a period specified in the condition as the period within which the offender must complete community service, satisfactorily perform community service, as directed by a probation officer or a supervisor, for the number of hours specified in the order;
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> > > > (e) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, undergo assessment and treatment for drug dependency as directed by a probation officer;
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> > > > (f) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, submit to testing for drug use as directed by a probation officer;
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> > > > (g) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, undergo assessment and treatment for alcohol dependency as directed by a probation officer;
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> > > > (h) the offender must not, during the operational period of the order, consume alcohol;
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> > > > (i) if a condition referred to in [paragraph (g)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpg@EN) or [(h)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hph@EN) is imposed on the order, the offender must, during the operational period of the order, submit to testing for alcohol use as directed by a probation officer;
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> > > > (j) the offender must, during the operational period of the order, submit to medical, psychological or psychiatric assessment or treatment as directed by a probation officer;
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> > > > (k) the offender must not, during the operational period of the order, be present at a place, or places, specified in the condition;
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> > > > (l) the offender must not, during the operational period of the order, in any way, directly or indirectly, communicate with, or be in the presence of, a person, or a member of a class of persons, specified in the condition;
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> > > > (m) the offender must not, during the operational period of the order, be, during the periods, of the days, specified in the condition, at a place other than the premises at which the offender resides;
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> > > > (n) any other condition, with which the offender must comply, that the court thinks appropriate.
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> > (2) A court must impose on a community correction order at least one of the special conditions referred to in [subsection (1)(c)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpc@EN) or [(d)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpd@EN) .
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> > (3) A special condition of a community correction order may specify that the condition applies during the whole, or any part, of the operational period of the order, but, at any time during the operational period of such an order, at least one of the conditions referred to in [subsection (1)(c)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpc@EN) or [(d)](#GS42AP@Gs1@Hpd@EN) must apply in relation to the order.
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> > (4) Unless the court making the order directs otherwise, the special conditions of a community correction order made in respect of a person are, during the operational period of the order, concurrent with the conditions, of each other community correction order, home detention order, community service order or probation order in relation to that person, that are in force during the operational period of the community correction order.