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Bills / Bill 45 of 2023

Public bill

Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023

Current Most recent stage: Second Stage

How far it has got

  1. First Stage
  2. Second Stage
  3. Committee Stage
  4. Report Stage
  5. Fifth Stage
  6. Enacted

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What the bill says it does

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the specific offence of spiking characterised by the administration, injection, or causation of the taking orally of a substance, knowing that the person to whom the substance is administered, injected, or caused to be taken does not consent, or being reckless as to whether the person consents, and where the perpetrator intends to overpower or sedate the person, to engage in a sexual act, cause harm, make a gain or cause a loss, or otherwise commit an offence.

This is the bill's official long title.