Victorian Numbered Acts

COURTS AND SENTENCING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2012 (NO. 26 OF 2012) - SECT 53

After section 66 of the Sentencing Act 1991 insert —

        " 66A     Notice of orders to be given

An order under this Part is not binding on an offender if the offender has not been given notice of it in the manner required by or under this Part.

        66B     Oaths

A court, or a proper officer of a court, may administer an oath for the purposes of proceedings under this Part.

        66C     Application of fines etc.

The whole or any part of a fine, penalty or sum of money which by or under any Act is authorised or directed to be imposed on a person forms part of, and must be paid into, the Consolidated Fund if no other way of appropriating or applying it is prescribed by law.

        66D     Penalty payable to body corporate

A forfeiture or penalty payable to a party aggrieved under an Act relating to an offence (whether indictable or summary) is payable to a body corporate if it is the party aggrieved.

        66E     Order made by Court of Appeal

For the purposes of any proceeding under this Part or Division 2 of Part 3C—

        (a)     a fine or a fine conversion order or fine default unpaid community work order made by the Court of Appeal on an appeal must be taken to have been made by the court from whose decision the appeal was brought; and

        (b)     the provisions about proceedings under this Part or Division 2 of Part 3C apply as if the court from which the appeal was made were the sentencing court.".