Victorian Numbered Acts

SENTENCING AMENDMENT (EMERGENCY WORKERS) ACT 2014 (NO. 69 OF 2014) - SECT 11

For section 3(2) of the Crimes Act 1958 (including the note at the foot of that section) substitute —

    "(2)     The baseline sentence for murder is—

        (a)     30 years if the court, in determining sentence, is satisfied that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that—

              (i)     the person murdered was an emergency worker on duty; and

              (ii)     at the time of carrying out the conduct the accused knew or was reckless as to whether that person was an emergency worker; and

        (b)     in any other case, 25 years.

    (3)     In subsection (2)(a) emergency worker on duty and emergency worker have the same meanings as in section 10AA of the Sentencing Act 1991 .

Note

See section 5A of the Sentencing Act 1991 as to baseline sentences.".