Bail (Further Amendment) Act 1988 (NSW)

BAIL (FURTHER AMENDMENT) ACT 1988 No. 60

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title
2. Commencement

3. Amendment of Bail Act 1978 No. 161

4. Transitional provision

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS

BAIL (FURTHER AMENDMENT) ACT 1988 No. 60

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 60, 1988

An Act to amend the Bail Act 1978 with respect to presumptions in favour of bail for certain minor offences. [Assented to 21 November 1988]

Bail (Further Amendment) 1988

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1.     This Act may be cited as the Bail (Further Amendment) Act 1988.

Commencement

2.     This Act commences on a day to be appointed by proclamation.

Amendment of Bail Act 1978 No. 161

3. The Bail Act 1978 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Transitional provision

4. The amendments made by this Act apply to offences whether

committed before or after the commencement of this Act.

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS

(Sec. 3)

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

(1) Section 9 (l)(a), (b)—

Omit the paragraphs, insert instead:

(a)	offences referred to in section 8A (1);
(b)	subject to subsection (1A), offences referred to in section 8 (l) or offences against section 51;

(2) Section 9 (1A)—

After section 9(1), insert:

(1A) This section applies to—

(a) an offence referred to in section 8(1) if the person accused of the offence is not entitled to be granted bail under

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SCHEDULE	1— AMENDMENTS—continued
(b)	an offence against section 51 arising from a failure to comply with a bail undertaking given in respect of an offence referred to in section 8(1) (a).

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

Legislative Assembly on SI August 1988

Legislative Council on 15 November 1988]