Section 80B — Sentencing Act 2002: Concurrent and cumulative sentences of home detention

80B Concurrent and cumulative sentences of home detention (1) If a court imposes a sentence of home detention on an offender who is already subject to a sentence of home detention, the sentences must be served concurrently unless the court directs that they are to be served cumulatively. (2) If a court imposes cumulative sentences of home detention or imposes 1 or more sentences of home detention on an offender who is already serving a sentence of home detention, the total term of the sentences of home detention must not be more than 12 months. (3) Before deciding to impose 2 or more sentences of home detention cumulatively or concurrently, the court must consider the guidance under sections 84 and 85 as if it applied to sentences of home detention. (4) Subject to section 57A , if a court imposes a sentence of community work and a sentence of home detention, or imposes one of them on an offender who is already subject to the other, the sentences must be served concurrently. Section 80B: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).