SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 7 Sentencing orders
SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 7
PART 2 - General sentencing powers Sentencing orders
A court that finds a person guilty of an offence may, in accordance with this Act and subject to any enactment relating specifically to the offence (a) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment; or(ab) if the court is constituted by a magistrate or is the Supreme Court or the Court of Criminal Appeal,, record a conviction and make a drug treatment order under Part 3A in respect of the offender; or(b) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment that is wholly or partly suspended; or(c) record a conviction and make a home detention order under section 42AC in respect of the offender, if the offender has attained the age of 18 years; or(d) with or without recording a conviction, make a community correction order under section 42AN in respect of the offender, if the offender has attained the age of 18 years; or(e) with or without recording a conviction, order the offender to pay a fine; or(ea) in the case of a family violence offence, with or without recording a conviction, make a rehabilitation program order; or(eb) adjourn the proceedings, grant bail under the Bail Act 1994 and, by order, defer, in accordance with Division 1 of Part 8 , sentencing the offender until a date specified in the order; or(f) with or without recording a conviction, adjourn the proceedings for a period not exceeding 60 months and, on the offender giving an undertaking with conditions attached, order the release of the offender; or(g) record a conviction and order the discharge of the offender; or(h) without recording a conviction, order the dismissal of the charge for the offence; or(i) impose any other sentence or make any order, or any combination of orders, that the court is authorised to impose or make by this Act or any other enactment.