New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 25AA

25AA Sentencing for child sexual offences

(3) When sentencing an offender for a child sexual offence, a court must have regard to the trauma of sexual abuse on children as understood at the time of sentencing (which may include recent psychological research or the common experience of courts).

(5) In this section--

"child sexual offence" means the following offences regardless of when the offence occurred but only if the person against whom the offence was committed was then under the age of 16 years--

(a) an offence under a provision of Division 10, 10A, 10B, 15 or 15A of Part 3 of the Crimes Act 1900 ,

(b) an offence under a provision of that Act set out in Column 1 of Schedule 1A to that Act,

(c) an offence of attempting to commit any offence referred to in paragraph (a) or (b),

(d) an offence under a previous enactment that is substantially similar to an offence referred to in paragraphs (a)-(c).