Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES (MENTAL IMPAIRMENT AND UNFITNESS TO BE TRIED) ACT 1997 - SECT 38ZC

    (1)     The question of mental impairment may be raised at any time during a hearing by the defence or, with the leave of the Children's Court, by the prosecution.

    (2)     A child must not be discharged in a committal proceeding only because the defence of mental impairment has been raised.

S. 38ZD
inserted by No. 55/2014 s. 125 (as amended by No. 79/2014 s. 48).