Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (BASELINE SENTENCES) ACT 2014 (NO. 52 OF 2014) - SECT 10

At the end of Part 12 of the Sentencing Act 1991 insert —

        "     152     Transitional provisions—Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2014

    (1)     In this section—

2014 Act means the Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2014 .

    (2)     The amendments made to this Act by Part 2 of the 2014 Act only apply to the sentencing of an offender on or after the commencement of that Part for an offence alleged to have been committed on or after that commencement.

    (3)     However, nothing in subsection (2) prevents a court taking into account the effect on current sentencing practices of the amendments made to this Act by Part 2 of the 2014 Act in sentencing an offender on or after the commencement of that Part for an offence to which those amendments would have applied had it been committed on or after that commencement.

Note

Section 5(2)(b) requires a court in sentencing an offender to have regard to current sentencing practices.

    (4)     For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the commencement of Part 2 of the 2014 Act, the offence is alleged to have been committed before that commencement.".

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