Bail Act 1982
7ANo bail for certain offences without high degree of confidence
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7A No bail for certain offences without high degree of confidence in accused person (1) This section applies to the following offences: (a) murder; (c) an offence against the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990 punishable by a term of imprisonment for 7 years or more; (d) an offence against the Customs Act 1901 (Cth) in relation to narcotic goods punishable by a term of imprisonment for 10 years or more; (da) an offence against Division 307 of the Criminal Code (Cth) punishable by a term of imprisonment for 10 years or more; (db) an offence against section 36, 37, 38 or 55 of the Serious Crime Control Act 2009; (dc) an offence against section 54, 103A, 242 or 243(1) of the Criminal Code; (dd) an offence against section 181 of the Criminal Code, or section 120 of the Domestic and Family Violence Act 2007, if the person accused of the offence has, at any time before the date of that offence, been found guilty of any of the following offences (the previous offence):
Bail Act 1982 11 (i) the offence of murder; (ii) an offence against section 181, 188A, 189A, 208H, 208HA or 208HB of the Criminal Code; (iii) an offence against a law of a State or other Territory or another country that is similar to an offence mentioned in subparagraph (i) or (ii); (iv) an offence against section 192 of the Criminal Code, as in force before the commencement of Part 2 of the Criminal Justice Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences) Act 2023; (de) a prescribed offence or serious offence (offence A) if the person accused of offence A is charged with committing offence A while on bail for a prescribed offence or serious offence (the previous offence); (dea)a prescribed offence or serious offence (offence AB) if the person accused of offence AB has, within the period of 2 years immediately preceding the date of the alleged commission of offence AB, been found guilty of 2 or more prescribed offences or serious offences, or any combination of them, for which a conviction was recorded; (df) a serious offence (offence B) if the person accused of offence B has, within the period of 10 years immediately preceding the date of the alleged commission of offence B, been found guilty of a serious violence offence (the previous offence); (dg) an offence where the accused person is the subject of an order made under section 40 of the Sentencing Act 1995 (the sentencing order) which may be breached if the person is convicted of the offence, unless: (i) the offence is a contravention of, or failure to comply with, an instrument of a legislative or administrative character; or (ii) the authorised member or court is of the opinion that the offence is so minor that a court is unlikely to regard it as a breach of the suspended sentence; (dh) an offence against section 120 of the Domestic and Family Violence Act 2007 (offence C), if the person accused of offence C has, within the period of 2 years immediately preceding the date of the alleged commission of offence C, been found guilty of a DVO contravention offence (the