Commencement Proclamation (2018-671) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Criminal Legislation Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Act 2018 No 33

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Criminal Legislation

Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Act 2018, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 December

2018 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 28th day of November 2018.

By His Excellency’s Command,

MARK SPEAKMAN, MP

Attorney General

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence all the remaining provisions of the Criminal Legislation

Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Act 2018, which will amend:

(a)	the Crimes Act 1900 to replace and create offences, increase penalties and improve prosecutions in relation to child sexual abuse offences, and
(b)	other related criminal legislation.

Published LW 30 November 2018 (2018 No 671)