Criminal Code Amendment (Interfering with Witnesses) Act 2001 (TAS)

Criminal Code Amendment (Interfering with Witnesses) Act 2001

An Act to amend the Criminal Code Act 1924

[Royal Assent 19 September 2001]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Amendment (Interfering with Witnesses) Act 2001 . 2CommencementThis Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3Principal ActIn this Act, the Criminal Code Act 1924 is referred to as the Principal Act. 4Schedule 1 amended (Criminal Code)Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting section 100 and substituting the following section: 100Interfering with witnesses Any person who – (a) with intent to pervert or obstruct the due course of justice, wilfully prevents, obstructs or dissuades another person from attending as a witness at a judicial proceeding, or from giving any evidence or producing anything to be used as evidence at a judicial proceeding; or (b) uses, causes, inflicts, procures or threatens any violence, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage to another person for or on account of – (i) that other person having given evidence at a judicial proceeding or produced or surrendered any document or thing at a judicial proceeding; or (ii) any evidence given by that other person at a judicial proceeding or any document or thing produced or surrendered by that other person at a judicial proceeding – is guilty of a crime.Charge:  Interfering with a witness.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 29 AUGUST 2001

Legislative Council on 30 AUGUST 2001]