Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES (RESTORATIVE JUSTICE) ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES

   6.      Objects of Act  
   7.      Application of restorative justice  
   8.      When restorative justice is available  
   9.      No obligation to participate  

   PART 3--KEY CONCEPTS

   10.     Definitions—restorative justice  
   11.     Definitions—child victim, parent and victim  
   12.     Definitions—offences and offenders  
   13.     Definition—sentence-related order  

   PART 4--APPLICATION OF ACT

   14.     Application of Act—less serious offences  
   15.     Application of Act—serious offences  
   16.     Application of Act—family violence offences and sexual offences  

   PART 5--ELIGIBILITY FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

   17.     Eligible victims  
   18.     Eligible parents  
   19.     Eligible offenders  
   20.     Accepting or not denying responsibility for offences  

   PART 6--REFERRAL FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

           Division 6.1--Preliminary

   21.     Definitions—referral  

           Division 6.2--General

   22.     Referring entities  
   23.     Referral—procedure  
   24.     Referral power  
   25.     Explanation of restorative justice  
   26.     Referral by DPP—less serious family violence offences and less serious sexual  

           Division 6.3--Referral by courts

   27.     Referral during court proceeding—before offender enters plea  
   28.     Court referral orders—reports  

           Division 6.4--Referrals not requiring offender notification

   28A.    Referrals not requiring offender notification—post-sentence  

   PART 7--SUITABILITY FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

   29.     Meaning of personal characteristics  
   30.     Suitability—eligibility requirement  
   31.     Finding of eligibility by referring entity  
   32.     Suitability—decision  
   32A.    Explanation of restorative justice––before consent  
   33.     Suitability—general considerations  
   34.     Suitability—victims  
   35.     Suitability—eligible parents  
   36.     Suitability—offenders  

   PART 8--RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CONFERENCES AND AGREEMENTS

           Division 8.1--General

   37.     Definitions—pt 8  
   38.     Meaning of referring entity—pt 8  
   39.     Decision to call conference  

           Division 8.2--Convenors

   40.     Appointment of convenors  
   41.     What a convenor does  

           Division 8.3--Conduct of conference

   42.     Required participants  
   43.     Substitute participants  
   44.     Invited participants  
   45.     Explanation for participants  
   46.     Form of conference  
   47.     Discontinuance of restorative justice  
   48.     Report to referring entity about outcome  

           Division 8.4--Restorative justice agreements

   49.     Application—div 8.4  
   50.     Agreement as object of conference  
   51.     Nature of agreement  
   52.     Form of agreement  
   53.     Explanation of effect of agreement  
   54.     Notice of agreement  
   55.     Amendment of agreement  

           Division 8.5--Monitoring compliance with restorative justice agreements

   56.     Application—div 8.5  
   57.     Monitoring compliance—director-general (restorative justice)  
   58.     Monitoring compliance—referring entities  

           Division 8.6--Evidence of statements made at conferences

   59.     Evidence of offences  
   60.     Evidence of future offences  

   PART 9--ADMINISTRATION

           Division 9.1--General administration

   61.     Restorative justice guidelines  
   62.     Police participation in restorative justice  
   63.     Information sharing  
   64.     Secrecy  
   65.     Secrecy about information acquired under other Acts  
   66.     Protection from liability  

           Division 9.2--Reporting and records

   67.     Meaning of referring entity—div 9.2  
   68.     Quarterly reporting by director-general  
   69.     Record-keeping by referring entities  
   70.     Record-keeping by director-general  
   71.     Restorative justice database  

   PART 10--MISCELLANEOUS

   72.     Exercise of functions by director-general  
   73.     Approved forms  
   74.     Regulation-making power  
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