SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 161 Transitional provision—Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017
SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 161
Transitional provision—Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017(1) The amendments made to section 32 of this Act by section 21 of the Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017 apply to the sentencing of an offender for an offence alleged to have been committed on or after the commencement of that section, irrespective of when the previous offence referred to in section 32(2D)(b) of this Act (as inserted by the Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017 ) was committed.
(2) The amendments made to this Act by Division 1 and 2 of Part 8 of the Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017 apply respectively to the sentencing of an offender, or the hearing of a charge, for an offence alleged to have been committed on or after the commencement of that Part.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) and (2), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the commencement of Children and Justice Legislation Amendment (Youth Justice Reform) Act 2017 , the offence is alleged to have been committed before that commencement.
S. 160 inserted by No. 65/2016 s. 17, renumbered as s. 160A by No. 57/2017 s. 52(3), renumbered as s. 162 by No. 3/2019 s. 88(1).