Title: Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) AmendmentBill 2012
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: ha107

House of Assembly—No 107
As laid on the table and read a first time, 29 November 2012

Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012

Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012
Part 1—Preliminary

Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012
Preliminary—Part 1

Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012
Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935—Part 2

South Australia
Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Bill 2012
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935
3	Amendment of section 5AA—Aggravated offences

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Aggravated Offences) Amendment Act 2012.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935
3—Amendment of section 5AA—Aggravated offences
	(1)	Section 5AA(1)(k)—after subparagraph (i) insert:
	(ia)	the victim was, at the time of the offence, acting in the course of his or her duties as—
	(A)	a health practitioner at a hospital or health service; or
	(B)	an ambulance or paramedic officer,
and the offender committed the offence knowing that the victim was so acting.
	(2)	Section 5AA(5)—before the definition of CFS insert:
ambulance or paramedic officer includes a person who is engaged as a volunteer ambulance or paramedic officer; 
	(3)	Section 5AA(5)—after the definition of circumstances of heightened risk insert:
health practitioner has the same meaning as in the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law;
health profession has the same meaning as in the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law;
health service has the same meaning as in the Health Care Act 2008;
hospital means—
	(a)	an incorporated hospital; or
	(b)	a private hospital,
within the meaning of the Health Care Act 2008;

HA GP 722-B: Mr Martin Hamilton-Smith MP