摘要
A wide-ranging criminal justice statute that reforms sentencing, introduces new police powers, restricts protest rights, and creates new offences. It includes Harper's Law (mandatory life sentence for killing an emergency worker), increases sentences for child cruelty and animal cruelty, and introduces new powers for police to impose conditions on protests including noise-based conditions.
要点
- Harper's Law — mandatory life sentence for the unlawful killing of an emergency worker (s.3, amending the Criminal Justice Act 2003)
- Whole life orders — extended to premeditated murder of a child and certain other categories (s.125)
- Protest restrictions — broadens police power to impose conditions on processions and assemblies, including conditions related to noise (ss.73-80)
- Unauthorised encampments — new criminal offence of residing on land without consent in or with a vehicle, with power to seize vehicles (ss.78-83)
- Serious violence duty — requires specified authorities to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence (Part 2)
- Extraction of information from electronic devices — new statutory framework for digital evidence extraction (Part 3)
- Reforms to the rehabilitation period for spent convictions (Part 11)