Victorian Numbered Acts

BAIL AMENDMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 28 OF 2023)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART 2--CHANGES TO TESTS TO BE APPLIED BY BAIL DECISION MAKERS

           Division 1--Certain offences no longer to be Schedule 2 offences

   4.      Power of police officer, sheriff or authorised person to grant or refuse bail  
   5.      Power of bail justice to grant or refuse bail  
   6.      Treason, murder, certain other offences  
   7.      Accused on 2 or more undertakings of bail  
   8.      Schedule 2 amended  

           Division 2--Offences in respect of which bail must not be refused

   9.      New section 4AAA inserted  
   10.     Persons subject to a summons to answer to a charge  
   11.     Schedule 3 inserted  

           Division 3--Unacceptable risk test

   12.     When 2 step tests apply  
   13.     Section 4D substituted  
   14.     All offences—unacceptable risk test  
   15.     Conduct conditions  

           Division 4--Notes to heading to Schedule 1

           Division 5--Preservation of certain aspects of items repealed from Schedule 2

           Division 6--Status of persons released on undertakings

           Division 7--Historical offences corresponding to Schedule 1 offences and Schedule 2 offences

           Division 8--Technical amendments

   PART 3--WHAT BAIL DECISION MAKERS MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT

           Division 1--Considerations concerning Aboriginal people

           Division 2--Considerations concerning children

           Division 3--Surrounding circumstances

   PART 4--REPEAL OF CERTAIN OFFENCES

   PART 5--CLARIFICATION, MODERNISATION AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

           Division 1--Sureties to be replaced by bail guarantees

           Division 2--Gender neutral language

           Division 3--References to undertakings

           Division 4--Provisions redrafted to modernise language

           Division 5--Other amendments

   PART 6--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

           Division 1--Consequential amendments

           Division 2--Transitional provisions

   PART 7--REPEAL OF THIS ACT
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