SENTENCING AMENDMENT (COWARD'S PUNCH MANSLAUGHTER AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2014 (NO. 72 OF 2014)

Table of Provisions

PART 1--PRELIMINARY

• 1 Purposes  
• 2 Commencement  

PART 2--AMENDMENT OF CRIMES ACT 1958

• 3 New section 4A inserted  
• 4 Punishment of manslaughter  
• 5 New section 624 inserted  

PART 3--AMENDMENT OF SENTENCING ACT 1991

Division 1--Principal amendments

• 6 New sections 9A, 9B and 9C inserted  
• 7 Custodial sentence must be imposed for gross violence offences  
• 8 Special reasons relevant to sentencing for gross violence offences  
• 9 New section 152 inserted  

Division 2--Amendments consequential on commencement of Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014

• 10 Custodial sentence must be imposed for manslaughter in circumstances of gross violence  
• 11 Custodial sentence must be imposed for manslaughter by single punch or strike  

PART 4--AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

• 12 Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2014  
• 13 Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Workers) Act 2014  

PART 5--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

• 14 Repeal of amending Act  
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