Exposure Draft Criminal Justice Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences) Bill 2023
The Department of the Attorney-General and Justice (AGD) is working to reform sexual offences in the Criminal Code. The reforms will:
- modernise existing offences
- introduce some new offences
- adopt recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA)
- bring sexual offences under the operation of the criminal responsibility provisions in Part IIAA of the Criminal Code.
This work builds on previous consultation undertaken on Criminal Code sexual offences in 2014, which included targeted legal stakeholder consultation.
AGD has released an Exposure Draft of the Criminal Justice Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences) Bill 2023 and is seeking submissions on the proposals outlined in this draft by Wednesday 15 February 2023.
To find out more about the proposal please see below:
Consultation Process
AGD is seeking feedback and comment in response to the Exposure Draft Bill.
The closing date for submissions is Wednesday 15 February 2023.
Electronic copies of submissions are preferred.
Please email submissions to Policy.AGD@nt.gov.au or via post to:
Director, Legal Policy
Department of the Attorney-General and Justice
GPO Box 1722
DARWIN NT 0801
Non-confidentiality of submissions
Submissions may be made publically available, and may be published on the Department’s website, unless clearly marked as ‘confidential’. The Department may draw upon the contents of submissions made and quote from them or refer to them in reports, which may also be made publically available.
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