Summary Offences (Advertising Involvement in Offence) Amendment Bill 2024 (SA)

South Australia Statutes Amendment (Criminal Justice Measures) Bill 2024 A Bill For An Act to amend the Bail Act 1985 and the Summary Offences Act 1953.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 2 Commencement Part 2—Amendment of Bail Act 1985 Division 1—Amendments commencing on assent 3 Amendment of section 10A—Presumption against bail in certain cases 4 Transitional provision Division 2—Amendments commencing 3 years after assent 5 Amendment of section 10A—Presumption against bail in certain cases Part 3—Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1953 6 Insertion of section 21AA 21AA Advertising involvement in offence etc 7 Transitional provision Schedule 1—Review 1 Review

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment (Criminal Justice Measures) Act 2024. 2—Commencement (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into operation on the day on which it is assented to by the Governor. (2) Part 2 Division 2 comes into operation 3 years after the day referred to in subsection (1).

Part 2—Amendment of Bail Act 1985 Division 1—Amendments commencing on assent 3—Amendment of section 10A—Presumption against bail in certain cases (1) Section 10A(2), definition of prescribed applicant—after paragraph (h) insert: or (i) an applicant charged with a prescribed offence and an offence against section 21AA of the Summary Offences Act 1953 if— (i) the prescribed offence is the alleged principal offence for the purposes of the charge of the offence against section 21AA of the Summary Offences Act 1953; and (ii) at the time of the alleged offending the applicant was a child of or above the age of 14 years. (2) Section 10A(2)—after the definition of prescribed applicant insert: prescribed offence means an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935: (a) section 86A; (b) section 169; (c) section 170. 4—Transitional provision The Bail Act 1985 as amended by this Division applies in relation to a person who applies for bail on or after the commencement of this Division (regardless of whether the relevant offence was committed before or after that commencement).