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Serious Offenders Act 2018
19Period of supervision order
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19 Period of supervision order
(1) Unless sooner revoked, the period of a supervision order is a period not exceeding 15 years specified by the court in the order.
(2) Any time spent in custody on remand or serving a custodial sentence during the period of a supervision order that has commenced counts in calculating the period of the supervision order.
(3) Any time spent in detention subject to an emergency detention order during the period of a supervision order that has commenced counts in calculating the period of the supervision order.
(4) Any time spent in immigration detention during the period of a supervision order that has commenced does not count in calculating the period of the supervision order.
(5) If an offender is subject to a supervision order and is sentenced to a community correction order (within the meaning of the **Sentencing Act 1991**), the community correction order is to be served concurrently with the supervision order.