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Sentencing Act 1997
92Court must explain certain orders
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### 92 Court must explain certain orders
> > (1) In this section,
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> > > ***order*** means an order that has conditions attached to it or which requires an offender to give an undertaking.
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> > (2) If a court makes an order in relation to an offender it must explain, or cause to be explained, to the offender in simple language –
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> > > > (a) the purpose and effect of the order; and
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> > > > (b) the consequences that may follow if the offender fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the order; and
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> > > > (c) the way in which the order may be varied.