Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2013 (NO. 31 OF 2013) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are to—

        (a)     amend the Administration and Probate Act 1958 to provide that an intention to apply for the re-sealing of probate, letters of administration, a grant or an order from a specified jurisdiction must be published in accordance with the Rules of the Supreme Court;

        (b)     amend the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 to ensure that trustees or persons having the care, control or management of reserved Crown land are only deemed occupiers under the Fences Act 1968 for the purposes of agreeing on a line of fencing where a waterway forms the boundary between adjoining lands;

        (c)     amend the Electoral Act 2002 to streamline the enrolment process for electors;

        (d)     amend the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 to enable the Chief Magistrate to nominate a Deputy Chief Magistrate to be Acting Chief Magistrate in the Chief Magistrate's absence and to amend the Magistrates' Court Amendment (Assessment and Referral Court List) Act 2010 to extend the trial period under the Act;

        (e)     amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to—

              (i)     provide courts with the flexibility to attach a condition to certain sentencing orders that require an offender to make a payment to an organisation that provides a charitable or community service or to the court for payment to such an organisation;

              (ii)     validate sentencing orders made by the courts attaching a condition requiring an offender to make a payment to an organisation that provides a charitable or community service or to the court for payment to such an organisation;

        (f)     amend the Coroners Act 2008 and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine Act 1985 to provide the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine with further powers to assist the Coroners Court in the performance of its functions.