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SENTENCING AMENDMENT BILL 2006

Serial 82
Sentencing Amendment Bill 2006
Ms Carney







A BILL
for

AN ACT
to amend the Sentencing Act












NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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Act No. [ ] of 2006

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AN ACT

[Assented to [ ] 2006]

[Second reading [ ] 2006]

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Sentencing Amendment Act 2006.

Act amended

This Act amends the Sentencing Act.

Amendment of section 40 (Suspended sentence of imprisonment)

(1) After section 40(2)

insert

(2A) A court must not impose a suspended sentence of imprisonment for any of the following offences:

(a) an offence against a provision in Part V, Division 2 (other than sections 138 and 140) of the Criminal Code;

(b) an offence against section 188(1) of the Criminal Code to which subsection (2)(b), (c), (d) or (k) of that section applies;

(c) an offence against section 192 or 192B of the Criminal Code.

(2) Section 40(3)

omit

A court shall not

substitute

In addition, a court must not

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