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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Sentencing Amendment Bill 2009
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1 Purpose 1
2 Commencement 1
3 Sentencing guidelines 2
4 New section 138 inserted 2
138 Transitional provision--Sentencing Amendment Act
2009 2
5 Repeal of Act 2
ENDNOTES 3
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Introduced in the Assembly
Sentencing Amendment Bill 2009
A Bill for an Act to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 and for other
purposes.
The Parliament of Victoria enacts:
1 Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to amend the
Sentencing Act 1991 to provide specifically that,
in sentencing an offender, a court must have
5 regard to whether the offender was motivated by
hatred for or prejudice against a group of people
with common characteristics with which the
victim was associated or with which the offender
believed the victim was associated.
10 2 Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day after the
day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
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s. 3
3 Sentencing guidelines
See: After section 5(2)(d) of the Sentencing Act 1991
Act No.
49/1991. insert--
Reprint No. 11
as at "(daaa) whether the offence was motivated (wholly
15 January
5 2009
or partly) by hatred for or prejudice against a
and group of people with common characteristics
amending
Act Nos
with which the victim was associated or with
46/2008, which the offender believed the victim was
7/2009 and
22/2009.
associated; and".
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10 4 New section 138 inserted
At the end of Part 12 of the Sentencing Act 1991
insert--
"138 Transitional provision--Sentencing
Amendment Act 2009
15 Section 5(2)(daaa) as inserted by section 3 of
the Sentencing Amendment Act 2009
applies to a sentence imposed on or after the
commencement of that Act, irrespective of
when the offence was committed.".
20 5 Repeal of Act
This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of its
commencement.
Note
The repeal of this Act does not affect the continuing operation of
25 the amendments made by it (see section 15(1) of the
Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984).
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Endnotes
ENDNOTES
By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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