Victorian Numbered Acts

CRIMES AMENDMENT (SEXUAL OFFENCES AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2014 (NO. 74 OF 2014) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 —

              (i)     to reform the law relating to rape and sexual assault; and

              (ii)     to abolish in certain child sexual offences the exception for a person who is married to the victim; and

              (iii)     to further provide for the offence of grooming for sexual conduct with a child under the age of 16 years; and

              (iv)     to provide for exceptions to child pornography offences; and

        (b)     to amend the Criminal Procedure Act 2009     to remove the time limits on commencing proceedings for certain former sexual offences and to provide for a course of conduct charge; and

        (c)     to amend the Jury Directions Act 2013 in relation to directions on consent in rape and certain other sexual offence cases; and

        (d)     to amend the Summary Offences Act 1966 to insert offences relating to intimate images; and

        (e)     to amend the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) Act 1995 to provide for exceptions to an offence against section 57A of that Act; and

        (f)     to amend the Working with Children Act 2005 to provide for offences relating to intimate images to be treated as category B offences for adults and category C offences for children, for the purposes of that Act; and

        (g)     to make minor amendments to certain Acts.