CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998  (No 9 of 1998)

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title    
2. Commencement   

CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998
- LONG TITLE
An Act to amend the Crimes Act
1900

CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998
- SECT 1
Short title  
     This Act may be cited as the Crimes (Amendment) Act 1998.

CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998
- SECT 2
Commencement 
     This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the
Gazette.
3.      Principal Act
     In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Crimes Act
1900.1
4.      Substitution
     Section 429 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted:
"429.       Purposes for which sentence imposed
     The only purposes for which a sentence may be imposed are--
         (a)     to punish the offender to an extent and in a way that is just and
appropriate in all the circumstances;
         (b)     to deter the offender or other persons from committing the same or a
similar offence;
         (c)     to rehabilitate the offender;
         (d)     to make it clear that the community, acting through the court,
denounces the type of conduct in which the offender engaged;
         (e)     to protect the community from the offender; or
         (f)     a combination of 2 or more of the purposes referred to in paragraphs
        (a) to (e) inclusive.".
5.      Matters to which court to have regard
     Section 429A of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection
(1) paragraphs (i), (j) and (l).
6.      Matters not to be taken into account
     Section 429B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting
paragraph (e).
     

CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998
- NOTES
NOTE

Principal Act

1.    Reprinted as at 30 November 1996.  See also Act No. 74, 1996; Nos. 10,
23, 52, 86, 96 and 117, 1997.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 30 April
1998]

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CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1998
- NOTES

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

No. 9 of 1998
    
[Notified in ACT Gazette S160: 10 June 1998]