Title: Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
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Legislative Council—No 89A
As reported with amendments and an amended title, report adopted, Standing Orders suspended and passed remaining stages, 25 August 2021

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Contents

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Part 1—Preliminary

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Preliminary—Part 1

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Part 2—Amendment of Sentencing Act 2017

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Amendment of Sentencing Act 2017—Part 2

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
Transitional provisions—Schedule 1

South Australia
Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2021
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Sentencing Act 2017.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Sentencing Act 2017
3	Amendment of section 11—Individual sentencing factors
Schedule 1—Transitional provisions
1	Transitional provision—Sentencing Act 2017

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Sentencing (Hate Crimes) Amendment Act 2021.
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 Sentencing Act 2017
3—Amendment of section 11—Individual sentencing factors
Section 11(1)—after paragraph (c) insert:
	(ca)	whether the offence was wholly or partly motivated by hatred for, or prejudice against, a group of people to which the defendant believed the victim belonged (including, without limiting this paragraph, people of a particular race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or age, or people having an intersex variation or a particular disability);

Schedule 1—Transitional provisions
1—Transitional provision—Sentencing Act 2017
Section 11(1)(ca) of the Sentencing Act 2017 (as enacted by this Act) will be taken not to apply in relation to sentencing for an offence that occurred before the commencement of this clause.

LC GP 725-C: the Hon Tammy Franks MLC