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TASMANIA
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CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT
(ABOLITION OF DEFENCE OF
PROVOCATION) BILL 2003
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Schedule 1 amended (Criminal Code)
5. Transitional
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CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT
(ABOLITION OF DEFENCE OF
PROVOCATION) BILL 2003
(Brought in by the Minister for Justice and Industrial
Relations, the Honourable Judith Louise Jackson)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal Code Act 1924
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled,
as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code
Amendment (Abolition of Defence of Provocation) Act 2003.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent.
Principal Act
3. In this Act, the Criminal Code Act 1924* is referred to
as the Principal Act.
*No. 69 of 1924
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s. 4 No. Criminal Code Amendment (Abolition of 2003
Defence of Provocation)
Schedule 1 amended (Criminal Code)
4. Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting
section 160.
Transitional
5. (1) This Act does not apply to criminal proceedings that
began before the commencement of this Act.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), criminal
proceedings are taken to have begun if the accused person
has been called upon to plead.
4 Government Printer, Tasmania