Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (SENTENCING STANDARDS) ACT 2017 (NO. 34 OF 2017) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 —

              (i)     to repeal the baseline sentencing scheme; and

              (ii)     to provide for standard sentences for indictable offences; and

              (iii)     to enhance the scheme in that Act for the giving of guideline judgments; and

              (iv)     to amend the definition of arson offence for the purposes of Part 2A of that Act (serious offenders); and

        (b)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 —

              (i)     to remove references to the baseline sentencing scheme; and

              (ii)     to fix a standard sentence for—

    (A)     murder; and

    (B)     a range of sexual offences; and

    (C)     culpable driving causing death; and

        (c)     to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 —

              (i)     to remove references to the baseline sentencing scheme; and

              (ii)     to fix a standard sentence for trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a drug or drugs of dependence.