Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Guilty Pleas) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment

(Guilty Pleas) Regulation 2018

under the

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999.

MARK SPEAKMAN, MP

Attorney General

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Regulation 2017 to make it clear that the scheme for sentencing discounts for guilty pleas, enacted by the Justice Legislation

Amendment (Committals and Guilty Pleas) Act 2017, does not apply to an offence for which proceedings

commenced after that scheme commenced, if the offence was dealt with under procedures relating to general regulation-making power) and clause 1 of Schedule 2.

committal proceedings that were in force before the sentencing scheme commenced.

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Guilty Pleas) Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Guilty Pleas)

Regulation 2018

under the

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Guilty Pleas)
Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 30 April 2018 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Regulation 2017

Part 6 Miscellaneous

Insert at the end of the Part, with appropriate numbering:

Transitional arrangements for guilty pleas provisions

Part 3 of the Act, as in force before its amendment by the Justice
Legislation Amendment (Committals and Guilty Pleas) Act 2017,

continues to apply to the determination of the sentence for an indictable offence to which the offender pleaded guilty, if the committal proceedings for that offence:

(a)	dealt with one or more offences and proceedings for any of those offences commenced before the commencement of Schedule 1 to that Act, and
(b)	were conducted in accordance with the provisions that were applicable to committal proceedings before the commencement of Schedule 1 to that Act.