Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024 (SA)

South Australia Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024 A Bill For An Act to amend the Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015 2 Amendment of section 3—Object of Act 3 Amendment of section 5—Meaning of high risk offender 4 Amendment of section 7—Proceedings Schedule 1—Transitional provision 1 Application to offenders

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Act 2024.

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015 2—Amendment of section 3—Object of Act Section 3—delete "serious sexual offenders and serious violent offenders" and substitute: various serious offenders 3—Amendment of section 5—Meaning of high risk offender Section 5—after paragraph (ca) insert: (cb) a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in relation to an offence against section 241 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 where the offence committed by the principal offender (within the meaning of that section) was a serious offence of violence or serious sexual offence; or 4—Amendment of section 7—Proceedings (1) Section 7(3)—after paragraph (c) insert: or (d) if the respondent is a person referred to in paragraph (cb) of the definition of high risk offender in section 5 (or was such a person when first subjected to an extended supervision order)—an assessment of the likelihood of the respondent committing any prescribed offence. (2) Section 7(6)(a)—delete paragraph (a) and substitute: (a) the likelihood of the respondent committing offences of a kind assessed under subsection (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as the case may be) if not supervised under the order; (3) Section 7—after subsection (6) insert: (7) In this section— prescribed offence means— (a) an offence against section 241 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 where the offence committed by the principal offender (within the meaning of that section) was a serious offence of violence or serious sexual offence; or (b) a serious offence of violence; or (c) a serious sexual offence.