CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 20BY Program probation orders
CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 20BY
Program probation orders(1) Where a person is convicted in a State or Territory of a federal offence and the court before which the person is convicted is satisfied that:
(a) the person is suffering from an intellectual disability; and
(b) the disability contributed to the commission of the offence by the person; and
(c) an appropriate education program or treatment is available for the person in that State or Territory;
the court may, without passing sentence on the person, order that the person be released, on condition that the person undertake the program or treatment specified in the order for a period specified in the order.
(2) Subsections 20BV(2), (3) and (4) and sections
20BW and 20BX apply to a person in respect of whom an order has been made
under subsection (1) of this section in the same way as they apply to a
person in respect of whom an order has been made under subsection
20BV(1) and, for that purpose, references in those provisions to treatment
have effect as if they were references to an education program or treatment of
the kind referred to in subsection (1) of this section.