Victorian Numbered Acts

JURY DIRECTIONS AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 37 OF 2017) - SECT 10

At the end of Schedule 1 to the Jury Directions Act 2015 insert —

        "     4     Jury Directions and Other Acts Amendment Act 2017

    (1)     The amendments made to this Act by a provision of the Jury Directions and Other Acts Amendment Act 2017 apply to a trial that commences (within the meaning of section 210 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 ) on or after the day on which that provision comes into operation.

    (2)     Section 4A as inserted by section 3 of the  Jury Directions and Other Acts Amendment Act 2017 applies, on and after the commencement of section 3 of that Act, to a summary hearing, committal proceeding, appeal, case stated or special hearing referred to in section 4A(1) for which the specified day is on or after that commencement.

    (3)     In this section—

"specified day" means—

        (a)     for a committal proceeding under the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 , the day on which the committal hearing commences; and

        (b)     for a case stated under the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 or Part 5.4 of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 , the day of the commencement of the hearing from which the question of law arises; and

        (c)     in any other case, the day of the commencement of the summary hearing, the hearing of the appeal, or the special hearing (as the case requires).".

Part 3—Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 2009