Victorian Numbered Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 (NO. 8 OF 2008) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to enable courts to give sentencing indications and to identify sentence discounts;

        (b)     to abolish reserved pleas;

        (c)     to amend the obligation to strike out a charge for a summary offence when the charge-sheet and summons have not been filed within time;

        (d)     to amend the penalty for the common law offence of exposure;

        (e)     to amend the summary offence of wilful damage;

        (f)     to make other minor amendments.