The maximum penalty for the offence of “assault occasioning actual bodily harm” is 5 years in prison.
According to the Judicial Commission of NSW, the actual penalties imposed for the offence are as follows:
- Prison: 63.1%
- Intensive Correction Order: 17.5%
- Community Correction Order: 13.6%
- Conditional Release Order with Conviction: 4.9%
- Children’s Court Penalties: 1%
The average prison sentence for the offence is 22.8 months imprisonment, and the average non-parole period (or minimum prison term that must be served) is 14.2 months in prison.