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SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 18X

Purposes of drug and alcohol treatment order

S. 18X(1) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 10(2).

    (1)     The particular purposes of a drug and alcohol treatment order are—

        (a)     to facilitate the rehabilitation of the offender by providing a judicially-supervised, therapeutically-oriented, integrated drug or alcohol treatment and supervision regime;

        (b)     to take account of an offender's drug or alcohol dependency;

        (c)     to reduce the level of criminal activity associated with drug or alcohol dependency;

        (d)     to reduce the offender's health risks associated with drug or alcohol dependency.

S. 18X(2) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 10(2).

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) affects the operation of section 5(1) but, if considering making a drug and alcohol treatment order, the Drug Court must regard the rehabilitation of the offender and the protection of the community from the offender (achieved through the offender's rehabilitation) as having greater importance than the other purposes set out in section 5(1).

S. 18Y inserted by No. 2/2002 s. 5, amended by No. 43/2020 s. 11.



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