Victorian Numbered Acts

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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