Title: Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders)Amendment Bill 2024
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Homfray, Samantha (AGD)
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Legislative Council—No 140
As received from the House of Assembly and read a first time, 20 February 2024

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Contents

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Part 1—Preliminary

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Preliminary—Part 1

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015—Part 2

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Schedule 1—Transitional provision

Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
Transitional provision—Schedule 1

South Australia
Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Bill 2024
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015
2	Amendment of section 3—Object of Act
3	Amendment of section 5—Meaning of high risk offender
4	Amendment of section 7—Proceedings
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1	Application to offenders

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) (Additional High Risk Offenders) Amendment Act 2024.

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015
2—Amendment of section 3—Object of Act
Section 3—delete "serious sexual offenders and serious violent offenders" and substitute:
various serious offenders
3—Amendment of section 5—Meaning of high risk offender
Section 5—after paragraph (ca) insert:
	(cb)	a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in relation to an offence against section 241 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 where the offence committed by the principal offender (within the meaning of that section) was a serious offence of violence or serious sexual offence; or
4—Amendment of section 7—Proceedings
	(1)	Section 7(3)—after paragraph (c) insert:
		or
	(d)	if the respondent is a person referred to in paragraph (cb) of the definition of high risk offender in section 5 (or was such a person when first subjected to an extended supervision order)—an assessment of the likelihood of the respondent committing any prescribed offence.
	(2)	Section 7(6)(a)—delete paragraph (a) and substitute:
	(a)	the likelihood of the respondent committing offences of a kind assessed under subsection (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as the case may be) if not supervised under the order;
	(3)	Section 7—after subsection (6) insert:
	(7)	In this section—
prescribed offence means—
	(a)	an offence against section 241 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 where the offence committed by the principal offender (within the meaning of that section) was a serious offence of violence or serious sexual offence; or
	(b)	a serious offence of violence; or
	(c)	a serious sexual offence.

Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1—Application to offenders
The amendments to the Criminal Law (High Risk Offenders) Act 2015 enacted by this Act apply to an offender regardless of when they committed, or were sentenced for, the offence against section 241 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935.

HA GP 114-C OPC 114