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Serial 62
Sentencing Amendment (Cultural Practice and Customary Law) Bill 2006
Ms Carney

A BILL
for

AN ACT
to amend the Sentencing Act

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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Act No. [ ] of 2006

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AN ACT

[Assented to [ ] 2006]

[Second reading [ ] 2006]

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Sentencing Amendment (Cultural Practice and Customary Law) Act 2006.

This Act amends the Sentencing Act.

(1) Section 5(2)

omit

a court shall have regard to –

substitute

a court must, subject to subsection (5), have regard to:

(2) At the end of section 5

insert

(5) A court must not have regard to any of the following matters in sentencing an offender:

(a) a cultural practice of a community of which the offender is a member;

(b) a customary law to which the offender may be subject as a member of a community.

Section 104A

repeal

Part 13

repeal

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