Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 18ZD

Sentence of imprisonment must be imposed

18ZD. Sentence of imprisonment must be imposed



(1) When making a drug treatment order, the Drug Court must impose a sentence
of imprisonment of no more than 2 years on the offender.

(2) The Drug Court must impose the sentence of imprisonment that it would have
imposed if it had not made the drug treatment order.

(3) Despite anything to the contrary in section 11, the Drug Court must not
fix a non-parole period in accordance with that section as part of the
sentence imposed by it.

Note A non-parole period may be fixed as part of certain orders under this
Subdivision activating the custodial part of a drug treatment order (see
section 18ZE(3)).