So Et wn ++ AUDAX - AT: FIDELIS + Queensland Criminal Code (Serious Assaults on Police and Particular Other Persons) Amendment Bill 2010 Queensland Criminal Code (Serious Assaults on Police and Particular Other Persons) Amendment Bill 2010 Contents Shorttitle .. 0... eee Actamended ........... 000s eee eet ete ee Amendment of s 340 (Serious assaults) ................... A Bill for An Act to amend the Criminal Code to provide for mandatory sentencing for serious assaults on police officers and particular other persons Criminal Code (Serious Assaults on Police and Particular Other Persons) Amendment Bill [s 1] The Parliament of Queensland enacts— Clause 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code (Serious Assaults on Police and Particular Other Persons) Amendment Act 2010. Clause 2 Act amended This Act amends the Criminal Code. Clause 3 Amendment of s 340 (Serious assaults) (1) After section 340(2A)— insert— '(2B) Subsection (2C) applies if a person is convicted of an offence '2C) Page 4 against subsection (1)(b) or (2AA), and the offence involves circumstances in which the person— (a) does bodily harm to a prescribed person; or (b) bites, spits on or throws a bodily fluid or faeces at a prescribed person. The court sentencing the person— (a) must sentence the person to a term of imprisonment of at least 3 months; and (b) if the sentence is 3 months—may not, despite the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 144, order that the whole or part of the term of imprisonment be suspended; and (c) if the sentence is more than 3 months—may not, despite the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 144, order that the whole or part of the first 3 months of the term of imprisonment be suspended. nAkRwW NY a Com A DN FF WNKY CO NNNWW WNrRO NWHNW NANA Criminal Code (Serious Assaults on Police and Particular Other Persons) Amendment Bill '(2D) '(E) (2) [s 3] However, if the person is convicted as a child under the Juvenile Justice Act 1992, subsection (2C) does not apply if the court is satisfied exceptional circumstances exist. Subsections (2B) to (2D) apply despite any other Act or law.'. Section 340(3)— insert— 'prescribed person means— (a) a police officer; or (b) a public officer who is a member, officer or employee of the Queensland Ambulance Service or the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service; or (c) amember of a rural fire brigade. rural fire brigade means a rural fire brigade registered under the Fire and Rescue Service Act 1990, section 79.'. Page 5 CoarAI DUN FP WNK ara) reo — N alent RW