Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) An amendment of this Act made by a provision of section 4, 6, 7 or 8 of the Sentencing (Amendment) Act 1997 applies to a sentence imposed after the commencement of that provision, irrespective of when the offence was committed and, for this purpose, a sentence imposed by an appellate court on setting aside a sentencing order must be taken to have been imposed at the time the original sentencing order was made.
(2) An amendment of this Act made by a provision of section 14, 15 or 18 of the Sentencing (Amendment) Act 1997 applies only to offences alleged to have been committed after the commencement of that provision.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between two dates and the provision of the Sentencing (Amendment) Act 1997 effecting the amendment commences on a date between those two dates, the offence is alleged to have been committed before the commencement of that provision.
S. 120 inserted by No. 57/1998 s. 27.