Queensland Consolidated Acts

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 15

15 Information or submissions for sentence

(1) In imposing a sentence on an offender, a court may receive any information, including a report mentioned in the Corrective Services Act 2006 , section 344 , or a sentencing submission made by a party to the proceedings, that it considers appropriate to enable it to impose the proper sentence.

(1A) Also, without limiting subsection (1) , in imposing a sentence on an offender, a court may receive any information, or a sentencing submission made by a party to the proceedings, that the court considers appropriate to enable it to decide—

(a) whether it may make a control order for the offender under part 9D , division 3 ; or

(b) the appropriate conditions of a control order it must, or may, make for the offender under part 9D , division 3 .

(2) An authorised corrective services officer must not, in any information or report, recommend that a fine option order or community based order should not be made for an offender merely because of—

(a) any physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability of the offender; or

(b) the offender’s sex, educational level or religious beliefs.

(3) In this section—

"sentencing submission" , made by a party, means a submission stating the sentence, or range of sentences, the party considers appropriate for the court to impose.