New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRE-TRIAL DIVERSION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1985 - SECT 23

23 Undertaking to attend the Program to be given to court

Where a person to whom this Act applies who is charged with a child sexual assault offence appears before the Supreme Court or the District Court and pleads guilty before trial to the charge, the court shall request the person to give to the court an undertaking:

(a) to participate (or continue to participate) in the Program for such a period not exceeding, in total, 2 years, as the Director may require,

(b) during that participation and, where applicable, pending the commencement of that participation, to comply with all reasonable directions given by the Director to the person in relation to:

(i) the behaviour of the person (including access by the person to any other person or premises or place, whether or not the person has a legal or equitable interest in the premises or place),

(ii) any matter prescribed by the regulations, and

(iii) any other matter which the Director thinks necessary or appropriate in the circumstances, and

(c) to appear before the court in relation to the matter when required by the court to do so.