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CRIMES (IN JURIES) AMENDMENT BILL 1990
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Crimes Act 1900 so as:
(a) to abolish the rule that an injury cannot be regarded as the cause of a person's
death if the person dies later than a year and a day after the date on which the
person received the injury; and
(b) to create a new crime of maliciously and intentionally causing (or attempting to
cause) a person to contract a grievous bodily disease.
Clause 1 specifics the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or days to
be proclaimed.
Clause 3 gives effect to the Schedules of amendments to the principal Act.
SCHEDULE 1--AMENDMENT RELATING TO THE YEAR-AND-A-DAY
RULE
Abolition of year-and-a-day rule
Schedule 1 (2) gives effect to object (a) of the Bill.
Schedule 1 (1) makes a consequential amendment.
SCHEDULE 2--AMENDMENT RELATING TO GRIEVOUS BODILY
DISEASE
Causing a grievous bodily disease
Schedule 2 inserts proposed section 36 into the Principal Act. The section provides
that a person is to be liable to a maximum penalty of 25 years' penal servitude if that
person maliciously and intentionally causes (or attempts to cause) another person to
contract a grievous bodily disease.