Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 757

757 Conviction for domestic violence offence before commencement

(1) This section applies if a person commits an offence against new section 359F(10) after the commencement and the penalty mentioned in new section 359F(11) applies to the person.

(2) New section 359F(11) applies regardless of whether any of the acts constituting the domestic violence offence mentioned in new section 359F(11) were done before or after the commencement.

(3) This section applies despite section 11(2) and the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20C(3).

(4) In this section—

"new" , in relation to section 359F or a subsection of section 359F, means section 359F or a subsection of section 359F as amended by the Domestic and Family Violence Protection (Combating Coercive Control) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2023.