Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (EMERGENCY WORKERS) ACT 2014 (NO. 69 OF 2014) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 and the Crimes Act 1958 to provide a custodial sentence for certain violent offences committed against emergency workers; and

        (b)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 to fix a baseline sentence for murder of an emergency worker; and

        (c)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 and the Summary Offences Act 1966 to expand certain existing assault offences to include emergency workers; and

        (d)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 in relation to community correction orders and to expand the list of arson offences in Schedule 1; and

        (e)     to amend the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 in relation to the release on parole of persons in respect of whom a youth justice centre order has been made in accordance with section 10AA(2) of the Sentencing Act 1991 .