Section 16AAA — Crimes Act 1914: Minimum penalties for certain offences
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Subject to section 16AAC, if a person is convicted of an offence described in column 1 of an item in the following table, the court must impose a sentence of imprisonment of at least the period specified in column 2 of that item. Minimum penalty Item Column 1 Offence Column 2 Sentence of imprisonment 1AA offence against subsection 80.2BE(1) or (2) of the Criminal Code 12 months 1A offence against subsection 80.2H(1) of the Criminal Code 12 months 1B offence against subsection 80.2HA(1) of the Criminal Code 12 months 1C offence against a provision of Division 101 or 102 of the Criminal Code (other than an offence against subsection 102.8(1) or (2) of the Criminal Code) 6 years 1D offence against subsection 102.8(1) or (2) of the Criminal Code 12 months 1E offence against a provision of Division 103 of the Criminal Code 3 years 1F offence against a provision of Division 111 or 112 of the Criminal Code (other than an offence against subsection 112.7(1) or (2) of the Criminal Code) 6 years 1G offence against subsection 112.7(1) or (2) of the Criminal Code 12 months 1H offence against a provision of Division 113 of the Criminal Code 3 years 1 offence against subsection 272.8(1) of the Criminal Code 6 years 2 offence against subsection 272.8(2) of the Criminal Code 6 years 3 offence against subsection 272.9(1) of the Criminal Code 5 years 4 offence against subsection 272.9(2) of the Criminal Code 5 years 5 offence against section 272.10 of the Criminal Code 7 years 6 offence against section 272.11 of the Criminal Code 7 years 7 offence against section 272.18 of the Criminal Code 6 years 8 offence against section 272.19 of the Criminal Code 6 years 9 offence against section 273.7 of the Criminal Code 7 years 10 offence against section 471.22 of the Criminal Code 7 years 11 offence against section 474.23A of the Criminal Code 5 years 12 offence against section 474.24A of the Criminal Code 7 years 13 offence against subsection 474.25A(1) of the Criminal Code 5 years 14 offence against subsection 474.25A(2) of the Criminal Code 5 years 15 offence against section 474.25B of the Criminal Code 7 years
Official source: Federal Register of Legislation
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