The maximum penalty for the offence of “punishment of accessories after the fact to other serious indictable offences” is 5 years in prison.
According to the Judicial Commission of NSW, the actual penalties imposed for the offence are as follows:
- Community Correction Order: 34.1%
- Conditional Release Order without Conviction: 17.1%
- Intensive Correction Order: 17.1%
- Prison: 17.1%
- Conditional Release Order with Conviction: 4.9%
- Fine Only: 4.9%
- Section 10A No Other Penalty: 4.9%
The average prison sentence for the offence is 10 months imprisonment, and the average non-parole period (or minimum prison term that must be served) is 10 months in prison.