Update 39 of the Sentencing Bench Book includes amendments to the following chapters:
- Fact finding at sentence
- Intensive correction orders (ICOs)
- Home detention orders
- Community service orders (CSOs)
- Deferral for rehabilitation or other purpose
- Setting terms of imprisonment
- Standard non-parole period offences – Pt 4 Div 1A
- Concurrent and consecutive sentences
- Subjective matters taken into account (cf s 21A(1))
- Section 21A factors “in addition to” any Act or rule of law
- Court to take other matters into account (including pre-sentence custody)
- Victims and victim impact statements
- Taking further offences into account (Form 1 offences)
- Sexual offences against children
- Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) offences
- Offences against justice/in public office
- Domestic violence offences
- Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990.