Proclamation re commencement (2003-5) (NSW)

2003 No 5

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2002 No 130

MARIE BASHIR, Governor

I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2002, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 13 January 2003 as the day on which the following provisions of that Act commence:

(a)	Schedules 1, 5, 7 and 8,
(b)	Schedule 2 [1] and [4]–[7],
(c)	Schedule 4 [1], [6], [7] and [8].

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 8th day of January 2003.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Attorney General

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence:

(a)	amendments to the Bail Act 1978 relating to the functions of justices, bail for Commonwealth drug offences, presumptions against bail and the review of bail undertakings, and
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(b)	amendments to the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 relating to control orders, and
(c)	amendments to the Crimes Act 1900 relating to assaults against law enforcement officers, self-defence and the disclosure of the residential address of health care providers applying for apprehended personal violence orders, and
(d)	amendments to the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 relating to consecutive sentences and existing life sentences, and
(e)	amendments to the Justices Act 1902 relating to the issue of warrants for the arrest of accused persons who are not present at committal hearings or summary proceedings or who abscond from any such proceedings, and
(f)	amendments to the Mental Health Act 1990 relating to the transfer back to prison of hospitalised forensic patients who are inmates of prisons.

BY AUTHORITY

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