Title: Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles)Amendment Bill 2006
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc8

Legislative Council—No 8
As received from the House of Assembly and read a first time, 11 May 2006

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006
Part 1—Preliminary

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006
Preliminary—Part 1

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006
Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935—Part 2

South Australia
Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2006
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935
4	Amendment of section 21—Harm
5	Insertion of Part 3 Division 7B
Division 7B—Throwing objects at moving vehicles
32A	Throwing objects at moving vehicles
32B	Alternative verdicts

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Moving Vehicles) Amendment Act 2006.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—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
4—Amendment of section 21—Harm
Section 21, definition of lesser offence, (b)—after "Division" insert:
or section 32A
5—Insertion of Part 3 Division 7B
After section 32 insert:
Division 7B—Throwing objects at moving vehicles
32A—Throwing objects at moving vehicles
	(1)	A person who throws a prescribed object at, or drops a prescribed object on, a moving vehicle is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
	(2)	In this section—
prescribed object means an object of a class prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
32B—Alternative verdicts
If at the trial of a person for murder or manslaughter the jury is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence charged but is satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence constituted by section 32A, the jury may bring in a verdict that the accused is guilty of that offence.

HA GP 016-C OPC 15