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SENTENCING AMENDMENT (RACIAL MOTIVATION) BILL 2016 BILL 64 OF 2016

                                 TASMANIA

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                SENTENCING AMENDMENT (RACIAL
                     MOTIVATION) BILL 2016
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                                 CONTENTS
           1.   Short title
           2.   Commencement
           3.   Principal Act
           4.   Section 11B inserted
                  11B.     Racial motivation to be taken into account in
                           sentencing offenders
           5.   Repeal of Act




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SENTENCING AMENDMENT (RACIAL MOTIVATION) BILL 2016 (Brought in by the Deputy Premier, the Honourable Jeremy Page Rockliff) A BILL FOR An Act to amend the Sentencing Act 1997 Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sentencing Amendment (Racial Motivation) Act 2016. 2. Commencement This Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3. Principal Act In this Act, the Sentencing Act 1997* is referred to as the Principal Act. *No. 59 of 1997 [Bill 64] 3

 


 

Sentencing Amendment (Racial Motivation) Act 2016 Act No. of s. 4 4. Section 11B inserted After section 11A of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted in Part 2: 11B. Racial motivation to be taken into account in sentencing offenders In determining the appropriate sentence for an offender, the court is to take into account, as an aggravating circumstance in relation to the offence, whether the offence was motivated to any degree by - (a) hatred for or prejudice against, on racial grounds, any victim of the offence; or (b) hatred for or prejudice against, on racial grounds, a person or group of persons with whom at the relevant time any victim of the offence was associated or believed by the offender to have been associated. 5. Repeal of Act This Act is repealed on the three hundred and sixty fifth day from the day on which it commences. 4 Government Printer, Tasmania

 


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