Justices Act 1886

The relevant provisions, as amended or inserted by the amending Act, apply in relation to a charge for an offence only if an originating step for the proceeding for the charge is taken on or after the commencement of this section.

For subsection (1), it does not matter when the offence was committed.

For applying this section to section 52(2) as inserted by the amending Act—

the complaint that must be made within 2 years from the time when the matter of the complaint arose, as mentioned in the inserted section 52(2), is, for this section, the originating step that must be taken on or after the commencement of this section; but

it does not matter if the commencement of the previously commenced proceeding, as mentioned in the inserted section 52(2), happened before or after the commencement of this section.

In this section—relevant provisions means—

section 23EB; and

section 52; and

section 83A; and

section 83B; and

part 4, division 10B; and

the provisions of this Act relating to committals of persons for trial or sentence for indictable offences, including part 5, division 7A.