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CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT Table Standard non-parole periods

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT Table

Standard non-parole periods

Table Standard non-parole periods

Item No Offence Standard non-parole period
1A Murder--where the victim was a police officer, emergency services worker, correctional officer, judicial officer, council law enforcement officer, health worker, teacher, community worker, or other public official, exercising public or community functions and the offence arose because of the victim's occupation or voluntary work 25 years
1B Murder--where the victim was a child under 18 years of age 25 years
1 Murder--in other cases 20 years
2 Section 26 of the Crimes Act 1900 (conspiracy to murder) 10 years
3 Sections 27, 28, 29 or 30 of the Crimes Act 1900 (attempt to murder) 10 years
4 Section 33 of the Crimes Act 1900 (wounding etc with intent to do bodily harm or resist arrest) 7 years
4AA Section 33A (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm) 9 years
4AB Section 33A (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (discharging a firearm with intent to resist arrest or detention) 9 years
4A Section 35 (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (reckless causing of grievous bodily harm in company) 5 years
4B Section 35 (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (reckless causing of grievous bodily harm) 4 years
4C Section 35 (3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (reckless wounding in company) 4 years
4D Section 35 (4) of the Crimes Act 1900 (reckless wounding) 3 years
5 Section 60 (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (assault of police officer occasioning bodily harm) 3 years
6 Section 60 (3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm on police officer) 5 years
7 Section 61I of the Crimes Act 1900 (sexual assault) 7 years
8 Section 61J of the Crimes Act 1900 (aggravated sexual assault) 10 years
9 Section 61JA of the Crimes Act 1900 (aggravated sexual assault in company) 15 years
9A Section 61KD (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (aggravated sexual touching) 5 years
9B Section 66DA of the Crimes Act 1900 (sexual touching--child under 10) 8 years
10 Section 66A of the Crimes Act 1900 (sexual intercourse--child under 10) 15 years
10A Section 66B of the Crimes Act 1900 (attempt, or assault with intent, to have sexual intercourse with a child under 10 years) 10 years
10B Section 66C (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (sexual intercourse with a child 10-14 years) 7 years
10C Section 66C (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (aggravated sexual intercourse with a child 10-14 years) 9 years
10D Section 66C (4) of the Crimes Act 1900 (aggravated sexual intercourse with a child 14-16 years) 5 years
10E Section 66EB (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (procure a child under 14 years for unlawful sexual activity) 6 years
10F Section 66EB (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (procure a child 14-16 years for unlawful sexual activity) 5 years
10G Section 66EB (2A) of the Crimes Act 1900 (meet a child under 14 years following grooming) 6 years
10H Section 66EB (2A) of the Crimes Act 1900 (meet a child 14-16 years following grooming) 5 years
10I Section 66EB (3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (groom a child under 14 years for unlawful sexual activity) 5 years
10J Section 66EB (3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (groom a child 14-16 years for unlawful sexual activity) 4 years
10K Section 91D (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (induce a child under 14 years to participate in child prostitution) 6 years
10L Section 91E (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (obtain benefit from child prostitution, child under 14 years) 6 years
10M Section 91G (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (use a child under 14 years for child abuse material purposes) 6 years
10N Section 93GA (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (fire a firearm at a dwelling-house or other building with reckless disregard for the safety of any person) 5 years
10O Section 93GA (1A) of the Crimes Act 1900 (fire a firearm, during a public disorder, at a dwelling-house or other building with reckless disregard for the safety of any person) 6 years
10P Section 93GA (1B) of the Crimes Act 1900 (fire a firearm, in the course of an organised criminal activity, at a dwelling-house or other building with reckless disregard for the safety of any person) 6 years
11 Section 98 of the Crimes Act 1900 (robbery with arms etc and wounding) 7 years
12 Section 112 (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (breaking etc into any house etc and committing serious indictable offence in circumstances of aggravation) 5 years
13 Section 112 (3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (breaking etc into any house etc and committing serious indictable offence in circumstances of special aggravation) 7 years
14 Section 154C (1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (taking motor vehicle or vessel with assault or with occupant on board) 3 years
15 Section 154C (2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (taking motor vehicle or vessel with assault or with occupant on board in circumstances of aggravation) 5 years
15A Section 154G of the Crimes Act 1900 (organised car or boat rebirthing activities) 4 years
15B Section 203E of the Crimes Act 1900 (bushfires) 9 years
15C Section 23 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (cultivation, supply or possession of prohibited plants), being an offence that involves not less than the large commercial quantity (if any) specified for the prohibited plant concerned under that Act 10 years
16 Section 24 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (manufacture or production of commercial quantity of prohibited drug), being an offence that--(a) does not relate to cannabis leaf, and(b) if a large commercial quantity is specified for the prohibited drug concerned under that Act, involves less than the large commercial quantity of that prohibited drug 10 years
17 Section 24 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (manufacture or production of commercial quantity of prohibited drug), being an offence that--(a) does not relate to cannabis leaf, and(b) if a large commercial quantity is specified for the prohibited drug concerned under that Act, involves not less than the large commercial quantity of that prohibited drug 15 years
18 Section 25 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (supplying commercial quantity of prohibited drug), being an offence that--(a) does not relate to cannabis leaf, and(b) if a large commercial quantity is specified for the prohibited drug concerned under that Act, involves less than the large commercial quantity of that prohibited drug 10 years
19 Section 25 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (supplying commercial quantity of prohibited drug), being an offence that--(a) does not relate to cannabis leaf, and(b) if a large commercial quantity is specified for the prohibited drug concerned under that Act, involves not less than the large commercial quantity of that prohibited drug 15 years
20 Section 7 of the Firearms Act 1996 (unauthorised possession or use of firearms) 4 years
21 Section 51 (1A) or (2A) of the Firearms Act 1996 (unauthorised sale of prohibited firearm or pistol) 10 years
22 Section 51B of the Firearms Act 1996 (unauthorised sale of firearms on an ongoing basis) 10 years
23 Section 51D (2) of the Firearms Act 1996 (unauthorised possession of more than 3 firearms any one of which is a prohibited firearm or pistol) 10 years
24 Section 7 of the Weapons Prohibition Act 1998 (unauthorised possession or use of prohibited weapon)--where the offence is prosecuted on indictment 5 years