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CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT (ASSAULTS ON PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES, AMBULANCE OFFICERS AND DRIVERS OF COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLES) BILL

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Criminal Code Amendment (Assaults on Public Sector Employees, Ambulance Officers and Drivers of Commercial Passenger Vehicles) Bill 2008
Mr Mills

A Bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT (ASSAULTS ON PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES, AMBULANCE OFFICERS AND DRIVERS OF COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLES) ACT 2008

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Act No. [ ] of 2008

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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Act No. [ ] of 2008

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An Act to amend the Criminal Code

[Assented to [ ] 2008]

[Second reading [ ] 2008]

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Amendment (Assaults on Public Sector Employees, Ambulance Officers and Drivers of Commercial Passenger Vehicles) Act 2008.

2 Act amended

This Act amends the Criminal Code.

3 Amendment of section 188 (Common assault)

(1) After section 188(2)

insert

(2A) A person found guilty of an assault must be sentenced to imprisonment for at least 2 weeks if the person assaulted:

(a) is a public sector employee, a paid or unpaid ambulance officer or a driver of a commercial passenger vehicle; and

(b) is assaulted while acting in the execution of duty.

(2) After section 188(3)

insert

(4) In this section:

commercial passenger vehicle, see the Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act.

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