Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (TERRORISM) ACT 2018 (NO. 32 OF 2018)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF TERRORISM (COMMUNITY PROTECTION) ACT 2003

           Division 1--Preventative police detention

   3.      Purposes  
   4.      Definitions  
   5.      New Division heading inserted into Part 1A  
   6.      Application of Division 1 of Part 1A  
   7.      New Division 2 of Part 1A inserted  
   8.      New Part 1B inserted  
   9.      New Part 2AA inserted  
   10.     Section 13B repealed  
   11.     Application for preventative detention order  
   12.     Form and content of application for preventative detention order  
   13.     Preventative detention orders  
   14.     Nature of preventative detention order  

           Division 3--of Part 8 of the Corrections Act 1986 (as modified by section 13W(6) of this Act) provides for the issue of a custodial community permit to a person detained in a prison for a purpose relating to his or her health. Section 597 of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (as applied by section 13WA(5) of this Act) provides for medical services and operations in the case of a person detained in a youth justice facility.".

   15.     Duration of preventative detention orders  
   16.     When order starts and ceases to have effect  
   17.     No preventative detention order in relation to person under 14 years of age  
   18.     Restrictions on multiple preventative detention orders  
   19.     Basis for applying for, and making, prohibited contact order  
   20.     Power to detain person under preventative detention order  
   21.     Endorsement of order with date and time person taken into custody or detained  
   22.     Arrangement for detainee to be held in prison  
   23.     Arrangement for detainee to be held in youth justice facility  
   24.     New sections 13WB to 13WD inserted  
   25.     Effect of preventative detention order to be explained to person detained  
   26.     Copy of preventative detention order  
   27.     Detention of persons under 18  
   28.     Restriction on contact with other people  
   29.     Contacting family members etc.  
   30.     Contacting lawyer  
   31.     New sections 13ZFA to 13ZFC inserted  
   32.     Contacting family members etc.  
   33.     Monitoring contact under section 13ZD or 13ZF  
   34.     Special contact rules for person under 18 or incapable of managing own affairs  
   35.     Entitlement to contact subject to prohibited contact order  
   36.     Disclosure offences  
   37.     Questioning of person prohibited while person is detained  
   38.     New Division 5A of Part 2A inserted  
   39.     Section 13ZU repealed  
   40.     New Part 8 inserted  

           Division 2--Requirements for granting preventative detention orders or authorising special police powers

   41.     Objects of Part 2A  
   42.     Application for preventative detention order  
   43.     Preventative detention orders  
   44.     Authorisation of special powers to prevent, or reduce the impact of, a terrorist act  

           Division 3--Special police powers

   45.     Definitions  
   46.     Authorisation of special powers to prevent, or reduce the impact of, a terrorist act  
   47.     Authorisation of special powers relating to the investigation of, or recovery from, a terrorist act  
   48.     How authorisation may be given  
   49.     Duration of authorisation  
   50.     New sections 21IA and 21IB inserted  
   51.     Exercise of special powers by police officers and protective services officers  
   52.     Power to obtain disclosure of identity  
   53.     Power to search persons  
   54.     Power to search vehicles  
   55.     Power to move vehicles  
   56.     Power to enter and search premises  
   57.     New sections 21SA, 21SB and 21SC inserted  
   58.     Cordon around target area  
   59.     Power to seize and detain things  
   60.     Use of force generally  
   61.     Offence to obstruct or hinder search or other powers  
   62.     Supplying police officer's or protective services officer's details and other information  
   63.     Schedule 1—Conduct of personal searches under Part 3A  

           Division 4--Protection of counter-terrorism intelligence

   64.     Definitions  
   65.     Application of Part 1A  
   66.     Preventative detention orders  
   67.     Extension of preventative detention order  
   68.     Basis for applying for, and making, prohibited contact order  
   69.     Application by police for revocation or variation of preventative detention order or prohibited contact order  
   70.     Nature of proceedings  
   71.     Part 5 substituted  

           Division 5--Oversight by the Victorian Inspectorate and annual reporting

   72.     Definitions  
   73.     Report to the Victorian Inspectorate  
   74.     No publication of report of proceeding  
   75.     Section 13 repealed  
   76.     Section 13ZR repealed  
   77.     Section 21M repealed  
   78.     New Parts 6 and 6A inserted  

           Division 6--Other amendments

   79.     Department references changed  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF BAIL ACT 1977

   80.     Definitions  
   81.     Surrounding circumstances  
   82.     New sections 3AAB and 3AAC inserted  
   83.     Section 3D substituted  
   84.     New section 4AA inserted  
   85.     Step 1—exceptional circumstances test  
   86.     Section 4B repealed  
   87.     Step 1—show compelling reason test  
   88.     Step 2—unacceptable risk test  
   89.     New section 8AA inserted  
   90.     Power of police officer, sheriff or authorised person to grant or refuse bail  
   91.     Power of bail justice to grant or refuse bail  
   92.     New section 10B inserted  
   93.     Power of court to grant or refuse bail  
   94.     Section 12A substituted  
   95.     Treason, murder, certain other offences  
   96.     New section 13AA inserted  
   97.     Schedule 1 amended  
   98.     Schedule 2 amended  
   99.     Transitional provisions  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005

           Division 1--Terrorism risk information

   100.    Definitions  
   101.    New sections 3A and 3B inserted  
   102.    New Division 1AA inserted in Part 5.6  
   103.    New Part 5.10 inserted  

           Division 2--Parole

   104.    Meaning of terrorism risk information  
   105.    New sections 457A and 457B inserted  
   106.    Release on parole from youth residential centre or youth justice centre  
   107.    Cancellation of parole  
   108.    New sections 460A, 460B and 460C inserted  
   109.    Department of Justice and Regulation may disclose terrorism risk information  

           Division 3--Transitional provisions

   110.    New section 630 inserted  

           Division 4--Miscellaneous

   111.    Statute law revision  
   112.    Definitions  
   113.    Children, Youth and Families Act 2005—consequential amendment related to police detention decisions  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF CORRECTIONS ACT 1986

           Division 1--Information sharing

   114.    Definitions—Part 9E  
   115.    Authorisation to use or disclose information  
   116.    Authorisation to disclose information given to Adult Parole Board  
   117.    Schedule 5 inserted  

           Division 2--Parole

   118.    Definitions  
   119.    New sections 3A and 3B inserted  
   120.    Secretary to supply assistance to Board  
   121.    Release on parole after service of non-parole period  
   122.    Parole decisions made by Serious Violent Offender or Sexual Offender Parole Division  
   123.    New section 74AAC inserted  
   124.    Cancellation of parole  
   125.    Revocation of cancellation  
   126.    Schedule 4 repealed  

           Division 3--Police detention decision amendments

   127.    When does legal custody of the Secretary cease?  
   128.    When is a person in the legal custody of the Chief Commissioner of Police?  
   129.    When does legal custody of the Chief Commissioner of Police cease?  

           Division 4--Transitional provisions

   130.    New section 129 inserted  

   PART 6--AMENDMENT OF CRIMES ACT 1958

   131.    Use of force to prevent the commission of an indictable offence  

   PART 7--AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

           Division 1--Serious youth offences

   132.    Criminal Procedure Act 2009—Definitions  
   133.    Sentencing Act 1991—Definitions  

           Division 2--Annual reporting by Commission for Children and Young People

   134.    Commission for Children and Young People Act 2012—New section 23A inserted  

   PART 8--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   135.    Repeal of amending Act  
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