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JURY DIRECTIONS AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 37 OF 2017)


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF JURY DIRECTIONS ACT 2015

   3.      New section 4A inserted  
   4.      Direction on significant forensic disadvantage  
   5.      New Divisions 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Part 4 inserted  
   6.      Prohibited statements and suggestions in relation to complainants  
   7.      New Division 3 of Part 5 inserted  
   8.      New Division heading inserted in Part 7  
   9.      New Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 7 inserted  
   10.     Schedule 1 amended  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2009

   11.     Jury documents  
   12.     New section 223A inserted  
   13.     Repeal of provisions relating to giving of evidence  
   14.     Section 377 substituted  
   15.     New section 448 inserted  
   16.     Statute law revision  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF EVIDENCE ACT 2008

   17.     Exception—criminal proceedings if maker available  
   18.     New Part 7 of Schedule 2 inserted  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1958

   19.     Section 42V repealed  
   20.     New section 166 inserted  

           Division 4--of Part IIA as amended by section 19 of the Jury Directions and Other Acts Amendment Act 2017 applies to a criminal trial that commences (within the meaning of section 210 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009) on or after the day on which section 19 of the Jury Directions and Other Acts Amendment Act 2017 comes into operation.".

   PART 6--AMENDMENT OF JURIES ACT 2000

   21.     Peremptory challenges in criminal trials  
   22.     Failure to reach unanimous verdict in criminal trials  
   23.     Schedule 6 amended  

   PART 7--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   24.     Repeal of amending Act  


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