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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION (THROWING OBJECTS AT MOVING VEHICLES) AMENDMENT BILL 2006

House of Assembly—No 2

As laid on the table and read a first time, 2 May 2006

South Australia

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935.



Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

4 Amendment of section 21—Harm

5 Insertion of Part 3 Division 7B

Division 7B—Throwing objects at moving vehicles

32A Throwing objects at moving vehicles

32B Alternative verdicts



The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Act 2006.

2—Commencement

This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3—Amendment provisions

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

4—Amendment of section 21—Harm

Section 21, definition of lesser offence, (b)—after "Division" insert:

or section 32A

5—Insertion of Part 3 Division 7B

After section 32 insert:

Division 7B—Throwing objects at moving vehicles

32A—Throwing objects at moving vehicles

(1) A person who throws a prescribed object at, or drops a prescribed object on, a moving vehicle is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.

(2) In this section—

prescribed object means an object of a class prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

32B—Alternative verdicts

If at the trial of a person for murder or manslaughter the jury is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence charged but is satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence constituted by section 32A, the jury may bring in a verdict that the accused is guilty of that offence.

 


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