Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 464FA

S. 464FA(1) substituted by No. 26/2023 s. 78(2).

    (1)     An investigating official must notify VALS if—

        (a)     a person is taken into custody; and

        (b)     either—

              (i)     the person states (whether or not in response to a question asked by an investigating official) that they are an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander; or

              (ii)     the investigating official who took the person into custody knows or is of the opinion that the person is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander.

Note

Note

Section 464AAB requires that an investigating official who takes a person into custody must ask the person whether they are an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander.

S. 464FA(2) substituted by No. 26/2023 s. 78(2).

    (2)     The notification must be made—

        (a)     within one hour of the person being taken into custody; or

        (b)     if it is not practicable to do so within one hour, as soon as it is practicable to do so.

S. 464FA(3) amended by No. 26/2023 s. 78(3).

    (3)     As soon as practicable after VALS is notified, an investigating official must inform the person taken into custody of that notification.

    (4)     In this section—

"VALS" means the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Co-operative Ltd (ABN 45 926 675 900).

S. 464G (Heading) inserted by No. 27/2006 s. 17(3).

S. 464G inserted by No. 37/1988 s. 5, amended by No. 86/2000 s. 8(1) (ILA s. 39B(1)).