Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 42

42 .         If statutory penalty is imprisonment and fine: sentencing options

        (1)         This section applies if a court is sentencing an offender for an offence the statutory penalty for which is such that both imprisonment and a fine may be imposed.

        (2)         If the offender is a natural person, the court may —

            (a)         use any one of the sentencing options in section 39(2); or

            (b)         use any one of the sentencing options in section 39(2) (other than those in paragraphs (a) or (c) of that section) and in addition fine the offender.

        (2a)         If the statutory penalty for the offence is such that both a minimum fine and imprisonment may be imposed, then despite subsection (2) the court must impose one or both of the following —

            (a)         a fine that is at least the minimum fine and not more than any maximum fine for the offence;

            (b)         a sentencing option in section 39(2) that is listed after section 39(2)(c),

                unless the written law creating the offence provides otherwise.

        (3)         If a court imposes a term of imprisonment on an offender that is not suspended, it may, in addition, impose indefinite imprisonment under Part 14.

        (4)         If the offender is a body corporate the court may use any one of the sentencing options in section 40(2).

        [Section 42 amended by No. 50 of 2003 s. 11.]