S. 10AB(1) amended by No. 27/2018 s. 364(4).
(1) Subject to subsection (2), in sentencing an offender for an offence against section 169 of the Serious Offenders Act 2018 (whether on appeal or otherwise), a court must impose a term of imprisonment of not less than 12 months unless the court finds under section 10A that a special reason exists.
Notes
1 Section 11(1) requires the court to fix a non‑parole period in the case of a sentence of 2 years imprisonment or more.
2 Section 11(2) enables the court to fix a non‑parole period in the case of a sentence of imprisonment of 1 year or more but less than 2 years.
3 Section 11(3) requires that a non-parole period must be at least 6 months less than the term of the sentence.
S. 10AB(2) amended by No. 27/2018 s. 364(5).
(2) Subsection (1) applies only if the court is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the offender intentionally or recklessly contravened a restrictive condition of the supervision order or interim supervision order.
S. 10AB(3) substituted by No. 27/2018 s. 364(6).
(3) In this section, "interim supervision order", restrictive condition and supervision order have the same meaning as in the Serious Offenders Act 2018 .
S. 10AC inserted by No. 50/2016 s. 5.