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CRIMES AMENDMENT (ABOLITION OF DEFENSIVE HOMICIDE) ACT 2014 (NO. 63 OF 2014)


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMES ACT 1958

           Division 1--Self-defence, duress, sudden or extraordinary emergency and intoxication and abolition of defensive homicide

   3.      Abolition of offence of defensive homicide and repeal of exceptions to homicide offences  
   4.      New Part IC inserted  
   5.      Amendment of other Acts consequential on repeal of offence of defensive homicide  

           Division 2--Complicity reform

   6.      New Subdivision (1) of Division 1 of Part II inserted  
   7.      Amendments consequential on reform of law of complicity  
   8.      New section 623 inserted  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF THE EVIDENCE ACT 2008

   9.      General discretion to exclude evidence  
   10.     New Part 5 inserted in Schedule 2 to the Evidence Act 2008  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF THE JURY DIRECTIONS ACT 2013

   11.     Part 7 substituted  
   12.     Schedule amended  

   PART 5--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   13.     Repeal of amending Act  
           ENDNOTES


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