Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A court sentencing
an offender to a term of imprisonment, or an aggregate of terms of
imprisonment, of 12 months or less ( the term imposed ) must give
written reasons why no other available sentencing option was appropriate.
(2) The written
reasons are to be kept as records of the court.
(3)
Subsection (1) does not apply if —
(a) the
term imposed is mandatory under a written law;
(b) the
aggregate of the term imposed and any other term of imprisonment that the
offender is serving or has yet to serve is more than 12 months; or
(c) the
term is imposed under section 79 of the Prisons Act 1981 .
(4) In this
section —
written reasons includes reasons given orally and
subsequently transcribed.