Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

SENTENCING ACT - SECT 7

Where a court finds a person guilty of an offence, it may, subject to any specific provision relating to the offence and this Part, make one or more of the following sentencing orders:

(a) without recording a conviction, order the dismissal of the charge for the offence;

(b) without recording a conviction, order the release of the offender;

(c) record a conviction and order the discharge of the offender;

(d) record a conviction and order the release of the offender;

(e) with or without recording a conviction, order the offender to pay a fine;

(f) with or without recording a conviction, make a community work order in respect of the offender;

(g) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment that is suspended by it wholly or partly;

(h) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment that is suspended on the offender entering into a home detention order;

(j) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment;

(k) impose any sentence or make any order authorised by this or any other Act.