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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions - Transitional and savings provisions

154: Offender convicted of murder committed before commencement date

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"Murder committed before 2002: how you're sentenced under the new law"

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If you commit murder before the Sentencing Act 2002 starts, but you are sentenced after it starts, this section applies to you. You will be sentenced according to this Act, unless it says otherwise. When you are sentenced, Section 104 does not apply to your case.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions: Transitional and savings provisions

154Offender convicted of murder committed before commencement date

  1. This section applies if an offender is sentenced on or after the commencement date for the crime of murder committed before that date.

  2. Except as provided in subsection (3), the offender must be sentenced under this Act.

  3. Section 104 does not apply to the sentencing of an offender to whom this section applies.