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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Criminal Law (Sentencing) (No Conviction on Election to
be Prosecuted) Amendment Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal
Law (Sentencing) Act 1988.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law
(Sentencing) Act 1988
3Amendment of section 16—Imposition of
penalty without conviction
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law (Sentencing) (No Conviction on
Election to be Prosecuted) Amendment Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Criminal Law (Sentencing)
Act 1988
3—Amendment
of section 16—Imposition of penalty without
conviction
Section 16—after its present contents (now to be designated as
subsection (1)) insert:
(2) If a person elects to be prosecuted for an offence in relation to
which the person has been issued an expiation notice and the court finds the
person guilty of the offence and proposes to impose a fine, a sentence of
community service, or both, the court may not record a conviction.