Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SEX OFFENCES PROCEDURE) ACT 2008 (NO. 18 OF 2008) - SECT 8

At the end of Part 5 of the Crimes (Criminal Trials) Act 1999 insert —

        "     35     Transitional provision—Justice Legislation Amendment (Sex Offences Procedure) Act 2008

        The amendments made to this Act by sections 6 and 7 of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Sex Offences Procedure) Act 2008 —

        (a)     apply to any legal proceeding that commences before or after the commencement of those provisions, irrespective of when the offence to which the proceeding relates is alleged to have been committed; but

        (b)         do not apply to any legal proceeding that commenced before the commencement of those provisions if, before that commencement, the accused had been committed for trial or charged on indictment or presentment with the offence to which the proceeding relates.".

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