South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (SERIOUS FIREARM OFFENCES) ACT 2012 (NO 33 OF 2012) - SECT 17

17—Amendment of section 20B—Serious repeat offenders

        (1)         Section 20B—before subsection (1) insert:

        (a1)         A person will, by force of this subsection, be taken to be a "serious repeat offender if the person (whether as an adult or as a youth)—

            (a)         has committed on at least 3 separate occasions a category A serious offence to which this Division applies (whether or not the same offence on each occasion); and

            (b)         has been convicted of those offences.

        (2)         Section 20B(1)—delete "A person" and substitute:

Without limiting subsection (a1), a person

        (3)         Section 20B(1)—after paragraph (b) insert:

                or

            (c)         the person (whether as an adult or as a youth)—

                  (i)         has committed on at least 2 separate occasions a category A serious offence (whether or not the same offence on each occasion); and

                  (ii)         has been convicted of those offences.

        (4)         Section 20B—after subsection (1) insert:

        (1a)         For the purposes of this section, when determining the number of occasions on which a person has committed a particular kind of offence, the offence for which the person is being sentenced is to be included if it is of the relevant kind.

        (5)         Section 20B(4)—delete subsection (4)