Crimes Act 1958
623Transitional provision—Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014
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623 Transitional provision—Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014
(1) This Act as amended by sections 3 and 4 of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 applies to offences alleged to have been committed on or after the commencement of sections 3 and 4 of that Act.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the commencement of sections 3 and 4 of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014, the offence is alleged to have been committed before that commencement.
(3) This Act as amended by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 applies to offences alleged to have been committed on or after the commencement of section 6 of that Act.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the commencement of section 6 of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014, the offence is alleged to have been committed before that commencement.
S. 624 inserted by No. 72/2014 s. 5.