Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (BASELINE SENTENCES) ACT 2014 (NO. 52 OF 2014) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to provide for baseline sentences for indictable offences; and

        (b)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 to fix a baseline sentence for—

              (i)     murder; and

              (ii)     incest with one's, or one's de facto spouse's, child or other lineal descendant or step-child under the age of 18; and

              (iii)     sexual penetration with a child under the age of 12; and

              (iv)     persistent sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16; and

              (v)     culpable driving causing death; and

        (c)     to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 to fix a baseline sentence for trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a drug or drugs of dependence.