Range of Sentencing orders
- Imprisonment
- Suspended term of imprisonment (partially or wholly)
- Community Service Order
- Probation Order
- Fine, Compensation Order, or Restitution Order
- Adjournment with Undertakings (with or without a conviction)
- Record a conviction and discharge the offender
- Dismiss the charge without conviction
The range of sentencing orders set out by the Sentencing Act 1997 are found in section 7 of the Act as follows:
7. A court that finds a person guilty of an offence may, in accordance with this Act and subject to any enactment relating specifically to the offence –
- record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment; or
- record a conviction and order that the offender serve a term of imprisonment that is wholly or partly suspended; or
- record a conviction and, if the offender has attained the age of 18 years and the offence is punishable by imprisonment, make a community service order in respect of the offender; or
- with or without recording a conviction, make a probation order in respect of the offender if the offender has attained the age of 18 years; or
- record a conviction and order the offender to pay a fine; or
- with or without recording a conviction, adjourn the proceedings for a period not exceeding 60 months and, on the offender giving an undertaking with conditions attached, order the release of the offender; or
- record a conviction and order the discharge of the offender; or
- without recording a conviction, order the dismissal of the charge for the offence; or
- impose any other sentence or make any order, or any combination of orders, that the court is authorised to impose or make by this Act or any other enactment.