22. Significant risk of serious harm.

For the purposes of the statutory provisions governing the sentencing of dangerous offenders¹ 'serious harm' means death or serious personal injury, whether physical or psychological². Where a person has been convicted of a specified offence³ and it falls to a court⁴ to assess⁵ whether there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission by that person of further such offences⁶ the court in making the assessment:

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   (1)     must take into account all such information as is available to it about the nature and circumstances of the offence⁷;

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   (2)     may take into