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FACT SHEET Sentencing Amendment (Phasing Out of Suspended Sentences) Bill 2017 The Sentencing Amendment (Phasing Out Of Suspended Sentences) Bill 2017 makes a number of amendments to the Sentencing Act 1997 and related legislation. The Bill will amend the Sentencing Act 1997 by: providing for the new sentencing options of home detention orders and community correction orders; removing probation orders and community service orders as sentencing options; removing suspended sentences of imprisonment as a sentencing option for certain offences, except in exceptional circumstances; and removing the power, except in exceptional circumstances, to order an offender to remain on a suspended sentence of imprisonment, or have a suspended sentence imposed as a substituted sentence, where the offender has breached a condition of their suspended sentence. Page 1 of 1