Crimes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2008

No. 70, 2008

An Act to make minor amendments to various Acts, and for related purposes

[Assented to 1 July 2008]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act may be cited as the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Act 2008.

(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
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.	1 July 2008
2. Schedule 1, item 1	Immediately after the commencement of item 4 of Schedule 1 to the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner (Consequential Amendments) Act 2006.	30 December 2006
3. Schedule 1, item 2	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.	1 July 2008
4. Schedule 1, items 3 and 4	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	2 July 2008

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Australian Federal Police Act 1979

1 At the end of subsection 60A(2)

Add:

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Crimes Act 1914

2 Paragraph 23YV(5)(a)

Omit “a further independent review to be undertaken within 2 years of the tabling of that report”, substitute “persons to commence, no later than 1 November 2009, a further independent review”.

Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991

3 After subparagraph 15(1)(b)(ii)

Insert:

(iia) the Criminal Code 2002 of the Australian Capital Territory in its application to the Jervis Bay Territory; or

4 At the end of paragraph 15(1)(b)

Add:

or (iv) any other law of the Australian Capital Territory prescribed by the regulations, in its application to the Jervis Bay Territory;