[no bill text published] NSW Tougher Bail Conditions and Stay Powers for Serious Personal Violence Offences

Bail Amendment (Serious Personal Violence and Electronic Monitoring) Bill 2024

Opposition Bill

9 May 2024: This bill has lapsed and is no longer under discussion.

Legislative Assembly

Legislative Council

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Introduced by: Alister Henskens MP (LIB)

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Official page: bill text and explanatory notes

Effects of this bill

If this bill passes, it means that:

Bail authorities must require electronic monitoring and restricted locations for adults accused of serious personal violence offences against domestic partners; this applies if the Crown requests it and no other sufficient reasons exist.
Bail authorities can require electronic monitoring as a pre-release condition.
A court's decision to grant bail for a serious personal violence offence is stayed if the Crown notifies the court that a detention application will be made to the Supreme Court.
The registrar of the Local Court cannot hear bail applications for serious personal violence offences.
Serious personal violence offences are defined as crimes punishable by 14 years or more in prison.

News articles and press releases

Bail Amendment (Serious Personal Violence and Electronic Monitoring) Bill 2024

Mr ALISTER HENSKENS, Member for Wahroonga — 2024-05-09

It makes three changes to the Bail Act that will immediately improve women’s safety. It will also ensure the quickest possible implementation of those changes to help improve the protection of women. At the core of the bill is the introduction of electronic monitoring as a presumed bail condition for all serious personal violence offences that occur, or have occurred, in current or former domestic relationships where either the prosecutor has called for it as a condition of bail or has made an application that bail should be refused.