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South Australia
Criminal Law (Sentencing) (Sentencing Powers of
Magistrates Court) Amendment Bill 2010
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal
Law (Sentencing) Act 1988.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law
(Sentencing) Act 1988
4Amendment of section 19—Limitations
on sentencing powers of Magistrates Court
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law (Sentencing) (Sentencing
Powers of Magistrates Court) Amendment Act 2010.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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 (Sentencing)
Act 1988
4—Amendment
of section 19—Limitations on sentencing powers of Magistrates
Court
(1) Section 19(3)(b)—delete paragraph (b) and
substitute:
(b) a fine that exceeds—
(i) in the case of an offence under the Occupational
Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986 being heard by an industrial
magistrate—$300 000; or
(ii) in any other case—$150 000.
(2) Section 19—after subsection (3) insert:
(3a) The limits imposed by subsection (3)(b) apply regardless of
whether the relevant offence was committed before or after the commencement of
that paragraph.