Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:20ab:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20AB (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 931327–933987

20AB  Additional sentencing alternatives
 (1) A court may pass a sentence, or make an order, in respect of a person convicted before the court in a participating State or participating Territory of a federal offence, if:
 (a) subsection (1AA) applies to the sentence or order; and
 (b) under the law of the State or Territory, a court is empowered to pass such a sentence, or make such an order, in respect of a State or Territory offender in corresponding cases; and
 (c) the first‑mentioned court is:
 (i) empowered as mentioned in paragraph (b); or
 (ii) a federal court.
 (1AA) This subsection applies to a sentence or order that is:
 (a) known as any of the following:
 (i) an attendance centre order or attendance order;
 (ii) a community based order;
 (iii) a community correction order;
 (iv) a community custody order;
 (v) a community service order;
 (vi) a community work order;
 (vii) a drug or alcohol treatment order or rehabilitation order;
 (viia) a residential treatment order;
 (viii) a good behaviour order;
 (ix) an intensive correction order;
 (x) an intensive supervision order;
 (xi) a sentence of periodic detention or a periodic detention order;
 (xii) a sentence of weekend detention or a weekend detention order;
 (xiii) a work order; or
 (b) similar to a sentence or order to which paragraph (a) applies; or
 (c) prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.
 (1A) Where the law of a participating State or a participating Territory requires that before passing a sentence, or making an order, of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(b) a court must first pass another sentence or make another order (whether or not that other sentence or other order is suspended upon the making of the first‑mentioned sentence or order), then, a court is not required, before passing or making that first‑mentioned sentence or order in respect of a person convicted by that court for a federal offence, to pass that other sentence or make that other order.
 (1B) A court is not precluded from passing a sentence, or making an order, under subsection (1) only because the court is empowered under section 20AC, in relation to a person who has failed to comply with such a sentence or order, to take action that is, or may be, inconsistent with action that, under the law of a participating State or participating Territory, a court of that State or Territory is empowered to take for such a failure by a State or Territory offender.
 (2) Where a court proposes to pass a sentence, or make an order, under subsection (1), it shall, before passing the sentence or making the order, explain or cause to be explained to the person in respect of whom