Victorian Numbered Acts

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

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--REPEAL OF THE BASELINE SENTENCING SCHEME

           Division 1--Amendment of the Sentencing Act 1991

   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Sentencing guidelines  
   5.      Sentencing for a baseline offence  
   6.      Median sentence  
   7.      Content of guideline judgment  
   8.      Aggregate sentence of imprisonment  
   9.      Fixing of non-parole period for baseline offence  
   10.     Aggregate fines  
   11.     Transitional provisions—Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2014  

           Division 2--Amendment of the Crimes Act 1958

   12.     Definitions  
   13.     Punishment for murder  
   14.     Culpable driving causing death  

           Division 3--Amendment of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981

   15.     Definitions  
   16.     Trafficking in a drug or drugs of dependence—large commercial quantity  

   PART 3--STANDARD SENTENCE SCHEME

           Division 1--Amendment of the Sentencing Act 1991

   17.     Definitions  
   18.     Sentencing guidelines  
   19.     New sections 5A and 5B inserted  
   20.     Content of guideline judgment  
   21.     Aggregate sentence of imprisonment  
   22.     New section 11A inserted  
   23.     Aggregate fines  

           Division 2--Amendment of the Crimes Act 1958

   24.     Definition inserted  
   25.     Standard sentence for murder  
   26.     Standard sentence for rape  
   27.     Standard sentence for sexual penetration of a child under the age of 12  
   28.     Standard sentence for sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16  
   29.     Standard sentence for sexual assault of a child under the age of 16  
   30.     Standard sentence for sexual activity in the presence of a child under the age of 16  
   31.     Standard sentence for causing a child under the age of 16 to be present during sexual activity  
   32.     Standard sentence for persistent sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16  
   33.     Standard sentence for sexual penetration of a child or lineal descendant  
   34.     Standard sentence for sexual penetration of a step-child  
   35.     Standard sentence for culpable driving causing death  

           Division 3--Amendment of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981

   36.     Definition inserted  
   37.     Standard sentence for trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a drug or drugs of dependence  

   PART 4--GUIDELINE JUDGMENTS

   38.     Definition  
   39.     New section 6ABA inserted  
   40.     Content of guideline judgment  
   41.     Procedural requirements  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   42.     New section 162 inserted  
   43.     Amendment of Schedule 1  

   PART 6--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   44.     Repeal of amending Act  
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