1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1995, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Crimes Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

  (2) This Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

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3 New sections substituted

• This section inserted sections 345A to 345D, and substituted s 346 of the principal Act.

4 Further amendments to principal Act and amendments to other enactments

• (1) This subsection amended sections 258(2)(b), 321(4), 322, 325(1), 326(1), 335, 336, 340(5), 345, 347, 348, 350, 353, 361(1), 361B(1), 361C(2)(a), 378, 379A(1), 411(3) and Schedule 2 to the principal Act.

  (2) This subsection amended, s 28D(1) District Courts Act 1947 (1947 No 16) and s 168C Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (1957 No 87).

  (3) This subsection amended the heading immediately above section 345 of the principal Act.

5 Savings provision relating to indictments

• Nothing in section 3 of this Act applies to any indictment in respect of an accused committed for trial before the commencement of that section.

6 Transitional and savings provisions relating to power of District Court to order trial by Trial Judge alone

• (1) Nothing effected by section 4 of this Act in relation to section 28D(1) of the District Courts Act 1947 or section 168C of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 or section 361B(1) or section 361C(2)(a) of the Crimes Act 1961 applies in relation to any accused committed for trial before the date of commencement of that section if the trial of the accused has commenced before that date.

  (2) Where the accused has been committed for trial before the date of commencement of section 4 of this Act, but the trial of the accused has not commenced before that date, section 361B(1) of the Crimes Act 1961 (as amended by section 4 of this Act) shall, so far as it is applicable, apply as if for the words “date on which he is so committed” there were substituted the words “commencement of section 4 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1995”.