Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 18X

Purposes of drug treatment order

18X. Purposes of drug treatment order



(1) The particular purposes of a drug treatment order are-

   (a)  to facilitate the rehabilitation of the offender by providing a
        judicially-supervised, therapeutically-oriented, integrated drug or
        alcohol treatment and supervision regime;

   (b)  to take account of an offender's drug or alcohol dependency;

   (c)  to reduce the level of criminal activity associated with drug or
        alcohol dependency;

   (d)  to reduce the offender's health risks associated with drug or alcohol
        dependency.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects the operation of section 5(1) but, if
considering making a drug treatment order, the Drug Court must regard the
rehabilitation of the offender and the protection of the community from the
offender (achieved through the offender's rehabilitation) as having greater
importance than the other purposes set out in section 5(1).