Local Court Bench Book — Specific Penalties and Orders

This table of maximum penalties is populated using Lawcodes data. For more information, see Changes to Specific Penalties and Orders at the end of the introduction.

The commencement of the Criminal Procedure Amendment (Domestic Violence Complainants) Act 2014 on 1 June 2015 amended the principal Act to permit evidence in domestic violence offences to be given in the form of a recorded statement instead of a written statement. The new provisions are detailed at [8-000] and following. The penalties below were introduced to address instances of abuse of the new evidentiary procedures.