Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (BASELINE SENTENCES) ACT 2014 (NO. 52 OF 2014)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF THE SENTENCING ACT 1991

   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Sentencing guidelines  
   5.      New sections 5A and 5B inserted  
   6.      Content of guideline judgment  
   7.      Aggregate sentence of imprisonment  
   8.      New section 11A inserted  
   9.      Aggregate fines  
   10.     New section 152 inserted  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMES ACT 1958

   11.     Definition inserted  
   12.     Baseline sentence for murder  
   13.     Baseline sentence for certain incest offences  
   14.     Baseline sentence for sexual penetration of child under the age of 12  
   15.     Baseline sentence for persistent sexual abuse of child under the age of 16  
   16.     Baseline sentence for culpable driving causing death  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF THE DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981

   17.     Definition inserted  
   18.     Baseline sentence for trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a drug or drugs of dependence  

   PART 5--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   19.     Repeal of amending Act  
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