An Act to amend various Acts relating to sentencing, bail and sentence administration to reduce certain kinds of criminal activity; and for other purposes.

1   Name of Act

This Act is the Justice Legislation Amendment (Non-association and Place Restriction) Act 2001.

2   Commencement

This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3, 4   (Repealed)

5   Monitoring of operation of amendments by Ombudsman

(1)  For the period of 2 years from the commencement of this section, the Ombudsman is to keep under scrutiny the operation of the amendments made by this Act.

(2)  For that purpose, the Ombudsman may require any public authority to provide information concerning the authority’s participation in the operation of the statutory provisions affected by those amendments.

(3)  As soon as practicable after the expiry of the period of 2 years, the Ombudsman must furnish a report to each Minister administering the statutory provisions affected by those amendments as to the operation and effect of those amendments during that period.

(4)  The Minister to whom such a report is furnished is to lay (or cause to be laid) a copy of the report before both Houses of Parliament as soon as practicable after the Minister receives the report.

(5)  If a House of Parliament is not sitting when the Minister seeks to furnish a report to it, the Minister may present copies of the report to the Clerk of the House.

(6)  The report:

(a)  on presentation, and for all purposes, is taken to have been laid before the House, and

(b)  may be printed by authority of the Clerk of the House, and

(c)  if so printed, is for all purposes taken to be a document published by or under the authority of the House, and

(d)  is to be recorded:

(i)  in the case of the Legislative Council, in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, and

(ii)  in the case of the Legislative Assembly, in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly,

      on the first sitting day of the House after receipt of the report by the Clerk.

Schedules 1, 2 (Repealed)

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments

Justice Legislation Amendment (Non-association and Place Restriction) Act 2001 No 100. Minister’s second reading speech made: Legislative Assembly, 26.10.2001; Legislative Council, 14.11.2001. Assented to 11.12.2001. Date of commencement of secs 1, 2 and 4 and Sch 2, 13.5.2002, sec 2 and GG No 85 of 10.5.2002, p 2739; date of commencement of the remainder, 22.7.2002, sec 2 and GG No 119 of 19.7.2002, p 5431. This Act has been amended as follows:

Table of amendments