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Western Australia Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) Bill 2013 Contents 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 3. Act amended 2 4. Section 187 amended 2 5. Section 204B amended 2 6. Section 557K amended 3 49--1 page i Western Australia LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) Bill 2013 A Bill for An Act to amend The Criminal Code. The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: page 1 Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) Bill 2013 s. 1 1 1. Short title 2 This is the Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) 3 Act 2013. 4 2. Commencement 5 This Act comes into operation as follows -- 6 (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act 7 receives the Royal Assent; 8 (b) the rest of the Act -- on the day after that day. 9 3. Act amended 10 This Act amends The Criminal Code. 11 4. Section 187 amended 12 Delete section 187(1) and insert: 13 14 (1) In this section -- 15 prohibited conduct means the doing of an act in a 16 place outside Western Australia in respect of a child 17 that, if done in Western Australia, would constitute an 18 offence under Chapter XXXI. 19 20 5. Section 204B amended 21 (1) In section 204B(1) delete the definition of electronic 22 communication. 23 (2) In section 204B(1) insert in alphabetical order: 24 25 electronic includes electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, 26 electromagnetic, biometric and photonic; page 2 Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) Bill 2013 s. 6 1 electronic communication -- 2 (a) means a communication by electronic means; 3 and 4 (b) without limiting paragraph (a), includes a 5 communication by any of these means -- 6 (i) email; 7 (ii) the Internet; 8 (iii) facsimile; 9 (iv) telephone, including mobile telephone; 10 (v) radio; 11 (vi) television; 12 13 6. Section 557K amended 14 In section 557K(1) in the definition of child sex offender after 15 paragraph (c) insert: 16 17 (da) an offence under any of these provisions of The 18 Criminal Code set out in the Schedule to the 19 Criminal Code Act 1995 (Commonwealth) -- 20 (i) Division 272 -- Child sex offences 21 outside Australia; 22 (ii) Division 273 -- Offences involving 23 child pornography material or child 24 abuse material outside Australia; 25 (iii) Division 474 Subdivision D -- 26 Offences relating to use of carriage 27 service for child pornography material 28 or child abuse material; 29 (iv) Division 474 Subdivision F -- Offences 30 relating to use of carriage service 31 involving sexual activity with person 32 under 16; page 3 Criminal Code Amendment (Child Sex Offences) Bill 2013 s. 6 1 or 2 (db) an offence under the repealed Part IIIA 3 Division 2 of the Crimes Act 1914 4 (Commonwealth); or 5 6
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