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CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 - SECT 70

Cancellation of periodic detention on further conviction etc

    (1)     This section applies if the board decides that, since an offender was sentenced to serve periodic detention, the offender has been convicted or found guilty of—

        (a)     an offence against a territory law, or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory, that is punishable by imprisonment; or

        (b)     an offence outside Australia against a law of a place outside Australia that, if it had been committed in Australia, would be punishable by imprisonment.

    (2)     The board must, as soon as practicable, cancel the offender's periodic detention under section 68.

    (3)     To remove any doubt, this section does not limit the circumstances in which the board may cancel the offender's periodic detention under section 68.



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