Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Act 2022
No. 82, 2022
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914, and for related purposes
Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Act 2022
No. 82, 2022
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Crimes Act 1914
Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Act 2022
No. 82, 2022
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914, and for related purposes
[Assented to 12 December 2022]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Act 2022.
(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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
1 Subsection 4AA(1) (definition of penalty unit)
Omit “$210”, substitute “$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.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 9 November 2022
Senate on 28 November 2022]
(121/22)