He will serve his time at the Mason Clinic in Pt Chevalier, the mental health facility where he is detained indefinitely for killing Christie.
On Wednesday, in the High Court at Auckland, Chand was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
An order was made that Chand be detained at the clinic as a "special patient", meaning he can be released only by the Minister of Health, and only when he is no longer a risk to the community.
Yesterday, Tracey and Brian Marceau held hands and cried quietly as Justice Helen Winkelmann spoke of reading parts of a journal Christie kept after she was kidnapped and threatened by the knife-wielding Chand in September last year.
Christie never intended her journal to be read by anyone, but her parents, wanting her feelings about the crimes to be considered, allowed Justice Winkelmann to look at it.
The content of Christie's journal has been permanently suppressed at the Marceaus' request - they do not want her personal writings ever made public.
In fact, they have not read a word of it themselves. But they offered it to Crown Solicitor Simon Moore, SC, and Justice Winkelmann to ensure the impact Chand's offending had on Christie was fully understood before he was sentenced.
"You've actually had and continue to have a terrible and lasting impact on the family of Christie Marceau," Justice Winkelmann told Chand.
"I have read ... parts of her journal following the initial offending against her. Following that, she came to be afraid of you. She was frightened that you would try to harm her. She regarded her life as being fundamentally changed by what you did to her. She was struggling.
"She was determined she would not let it drag her into depression, she was thinking positively and planning for the future."
