Courts can set a non-parole period at 50% of a prison sentence for offenders jailed for 12 months or more; the court must give reasons if it chooses a different percentage.

Courts can now order home detention for all or part of an intensive community correction order.

The Administrator and Minister must be satisfied a person is fit and proper before appointing them as a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths; they must check for any criminal convictions in Australia or overseas.

Several synthetic opioids and dissociatives, including Fentanyl and Phencyclidine, are moved to the most restrictive drug schedule.

The Senior Practitioner can delegate their health care decision-making powers to a qualified public sector employee.

The land title issuing authority can now choose whether to issue certificates as to title; it is no longer required to do so.