Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 7

Sentencing orders

7. Sentencing orders



(1) If a court finds a person guilty of an offence, it may, subject to any
specific provision relating to the offence and subject to this Part-

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

   (ab) record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of
        imprisonment partly in custody and partly in the community (a combined
        custody and treatment order); or

   (aab) subject to Part 5, record a conviction and order that the offender be
        detained and treated in an approved mental health service as a
        security patient (a hospital security order); or

   (ac) record a conviction and make a drug treatment order in respect of the
        offender; or



   (b)  record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of
        imprisonment by way of intensive correction in the community (an
        intensive correction order); or

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





   (d)  in the case of a young offender, record a conviction and order that
        the young offender be detained in a youth justice centre; or





   (da) in the case of a young offender, record a conviction and order that
        the young offender be detained in a youth residential centre; or

   (e)  with or without recording a conviction, make a community-based order
        in respect of the offender; or

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

   (g)  record a conviction and order the release of the offender on the
        adjournment of the hearing on conditions; or

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

        (i)    without recording a conviction, order the release of the
               offender on the adjournment of the hearing on conditions; or

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

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

(2) If the Magistrates' Court finds a person aged 18 years or more but under
25 years of age guilty of an offence, it may defer sentencing the person in
accordance with section 83A.