Victorian Current Acts

JURY DIRECTIONS ACT 2015 - SECT 47D

For the purposes of this Division, a direction on the absence of physical injury, violence or a threat is a direction informing the jury that experience shows that—

        (a)     there are many different circumstances in which people do and do not consent to a sexual act; and

        (b)     people who do not consent to a sexual act may not be—

              (i)     physically injured or subjected to violence; or

              (ii)     threatened with physical injury or violence.

S. 47E inserted by No. 38/2022 s. 48.