Bail (Amendment) Act 1986 (NSW)

BAIL (AMENDMENT) ACT 1986 No. 48

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title

2.         Commencement

3.         Amendment of Act No. 161, 1978

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS TO THE BAIL ACT 1978

BAIL (AMENDMENT) ACT 1986 No. 48

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 48, 1986

An Act to amend the Bail Act 1978 to deny the presumption in favour of the grant of bail for certain offences under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985. [Assented to, 9 May 1986]

Act No. 48

Bail (Amendment) 1986

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the "Bail (Amendment) Act 1986".

Commencement

2. (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence on the date of assent to this

Act.

(2) Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act shall commence on the day appointed and notified under section 2 (2) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.

Amendment of Act No. 161, 1978

3. The Bail Act 1978 is amended in the manner set forth in Schedule 1.

SCHEDULE 1

(Sec. 3)

AMENDMENTS TO THE BAIL ACT 1978

Section 9 (Presumption in favour of grant of bail for certain other offences)—

(1) Section 9 (1) (b)—

Omit "and".

(2) Section 9 (1) (c), (d)—

At the end of section 9(1) (c), insert:

; and

(d) offences under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, being—

(i) an offence under section 23 (2) of that Act; (ii) an offence under section 24 (2) of that Act;

Bail (Amendment) 1986

SCHEDULE 1—continued

AMENDMENTS TO THE BAIL ACT 1978 —continued

(iii) an offence under section 25 (2) of that Act;

(iv)  an offence under section 26 of that Act of conspiring to commit an offence referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii);

(v)  an offence under section 27 of that Act of aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring, soliciting or inciting the commission of an offence referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); and

(vi)  an offence under section 28 of that Act of conspiring to commit, or of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of, an offence under the provisions of a law in force outside New South Wales which corresponds to section 23 (2), 24 (2) or 25 (2) of that Act.