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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 17B
17B Restriction on imposing sentences for certain minor
offences
- (1)
- If:
- (a)
- a person is convicted of one or more section 17B
offences relating to property, money or both, whose
total value is not more than $2,000; and
- (b)
- the person has not previously been sentenced to
imprisonment for any federal, State or Territory
offence;
the court convicting the person is not to pass a sentence
of imprisonment for that offence, or for any of those
offences, unless the court is satisfied that there are
exceptional circumstances that warrant it.
- (2)
- In calculating the total value for the purposes of
paragraph (1)(a), a section 17B
offence which the court, with the consent of the person
charged, has taken into account in passing sentence on the
person for another federal offence (whether a section 17B
offence or not) is taken to be an offence of which the
person is convicted.
- (3)
- In this section:
section 17B
offence means an offence against section 29
of this
Act, an offence against section 131.1,
132.1, 132.6,
132.7, 134.1,
134.2, 135.1,
135.2, 135.4,
145.4
or 145.5
of the Criminal Code or an offence against a
provision of a federal law prescribed for the purposes of
this section.
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