Uncommenced provisions of the Crimes Amendment Act 2007

12/02/2008

The uncommenced provisions of the Crimes Amendment Act 2007 will come into effect on 15 February 2008.

The provisions concerned relate to the following:

• replacing “malicious” as a fault element for offences under the Crimes Act 1900 with the modern fault element of “intention” or “recklessness”;
• replacing existing blackmail/extortion offences in that Act with offences based on the Model Criminal Code (and making a related consequential amendment);
• ensuring that for all offences under that Act the infliction of grievous bodily harm includes causing a person to contract a grievous bodily disease; and
• extending the offence under that Act of breaking and entering dwelling-houses or certain other commercial or government buildings and committing (or intending to commit) a serious indictable offence to buildings of any kind.

12 February 2007