After section 29C insert:
Division 5—Offences involving paedophilia
29D—Sentencing standards for offences involving paedophilia
(1) The Parliament
declares that—
(a) the
1997 amendment of sentencing standards reflected an emerging recognition by
the judiciary and the community generally of the inherent seriousness of
offences involving paedophilia; and
(b) the
reformed standards should be applied to offences involving paedophilia
committed before or after the enunciation of the 1997 amendment of sentencing
standards (or committed in part before, and in part after, the enunciation of
the 1997 amendment of sentencing standards).
(2) In this
section—
1997 amendment of sentencing standards means the change to sentencing
standards enunciated in R v D (1997) 69 SASR 413;
"offences involving paedophilia" means all offences to which the 1997
amendment of sentencing standards is applicable (whether individual sentences
for the offences have been, or are to be, imposed or a global sentence
covering a series of offences¹ or a course of conduct involving a number
of criminal incidents²).
"reformed standards" means sentencing standards as changed by the 1997
amendment of sentencing standards.
Note—
1 See section 18A of the Criminal Law (Sentencing)
Act 1988 .
2 See section 74 of the Criminal Law
Consolidation Act 1935 .