Chapter:
33 - Youth Affairs
Mover:
Paragraph(s):
33 - 33
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Page Number:
N/A
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Branch: Black Mountain
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Platform Change

Increasing the age of Criminal responsibility

AMEND:
33. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 10 years. The Age of Criminal Responsibility should be 14, with the following exception:    
●    The Child is between 12 and 14 years old; and    
●    The Child understood the conduct was wrong; and    
The Child has committed one of the most serious offences as listed in the Justice (Age of Criminal Responsibility) Legislation Amendment Act 2023 (ACT), sch 1.                
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Original Paragraph 33
Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 10 years.