Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (SENTENCING STANDARDS) ACT 2017 (NO. 34 OF 2017) - NOTES

No. 34 of 2017

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Victoria

Sentencing Amendment (Sentencing Standards) Act 2017^[†]

No. 34 of 2017

[Assented to 15 August 2017]

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^[†]     Minister's second reading speech—

    Legislative Assembly: 25 May 2017

    Legislative Council: 8 June 2017

    The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to repeal the baseline sentencing scheme, provide for standard sentences for indictable offences and enhance the scheme in that Act for the giving of guideline judgments, to amend the Crimes Act 1958 and the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 to remove references to the baseline sentencing scheme and fix a standard sentence for certain offences against those Acts and for other purposes."