Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2022
Attorney-General
28 November 2022

2022

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2022

 

No.      , 2022

 

(Attorney-General)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914 , and for related purposes

   

   



Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                 3

Crimes Act 1914                                                                                                            3

 



A Bill for an Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914 , and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Act 2022 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this Act

1 January 2023.

1 January 2023

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 Amendments

   

Crimes Act 1914

1  Subsection 4AA(1) (definition of penalty unit )

Omit “送210”, substitute “送275”.

2  Subsection 4AA(3)

Omit “2020”, substitute “2023”.

3  Application of amendments

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to offences committed on or after the commencement of this Schedule.