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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences)
Amendment Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law
Consolidation Act 1935
3Amendment of section 5AA—Aggravated
offences
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated
Offences) Amendment Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
3—Amendment
of section 5AA—Aggravated offences
(1) Section 5AA(1)(k)—after subparagraph (i)
insert:
(ia) the victim was, at the time of the offence, acting in the course of
his or her duties as—
(A) a health practitioner at a hospital or health service; or
(B) an ambulance or paramedic officer,
and the offender committed the offence knowing that the victim was so
acting.
(2) Section 5AA(5)—before the definition of CFS
insert:
ambulance or paramedic officer includes a person who is
engaged as a volunteer ambulance or paramedic officer;
(3) Section 5AA(5)—after the definition of circumstances
of heightened risk insert:
health practitioner has the same meaning as in the
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law;
health profession has the same meaning as in the
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law;
health service has the same meaning as in the Health Care Act 2008;
hospital means—
(a) an incorporated hospital; or
(b) a private hospital,
within the meaning of the Health
Care Act 2008;