Section 80W — Sentencing Act 2002: Court may defer start date of sentence of home detention

80W Court may defer start date of sentence of home detention (1) The court may defer the start date of a sentence of home detention for a specified period of up to 2 months— (a) on humanitarian grounds; or (b) if the court is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to defer the start of the sentence of home detention. (2) If a sentence of home detention is deferred in accordance with subsection (1), the sentence of home detention starts on the date to which the court has ordered that the sentence be deferred. (3) Despite subsection (1), no court may defer the start date of a sentence of home detention if— (a) the sentence of home detention is imposed cumulatively on any other sentence of home detention; or (b) the sentence of home detention is imposed in substitution for a sentence of home detention or imprisonment that has been quashed or set aside; or (c) an order under this section has already been made in respect of the sentence; or (d) the offender has already commenced serving the sentence or is detained under any other sentence or order. Section 80W: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 44 of the Sentencing Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 27).