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<leghistory id="act-2025-020" type="act" title="Penalties and Sentences (Sexual Offences) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 " project.no="B25_0018" version.series.id="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" version.desc.id="b7dc3268-1095-4648-90e7-2dba45131090" act.type="publicgeneral"><legislationlist><actentry bill.project.no="B25_0018" type="act.original" doc.id="act-2025-020" introduction.date="2025-05-20" assent.date="2025-09-19"><legref valid.date="as.made" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" type="act" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" jurisd="QLD" check="unknown"><name emphasis="yes">Penalties and Sentences (Sexual Offences) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 </name></legref><commencements><commencement guid="_940aa81d-16d3-4dd2-b582-415fa5ec713d" commence.date="2025-09-19" type="commence"><txt break.before="1"><legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="pt.1" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" 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Legislation Amendment Act 2024, <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="sec.59" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" check="invalid">section&#160;59</legref> (see <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="sec.2" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" check="invalid">s&#160;2</legref><legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="sec.2-ssec.3" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" check="invalid">(3)</legref>)</txt></commencement><commencement guid="_d6beab53-2435-4646-89d8-26a7b14a28c2" commence.date="2025-11-01" type="commence"><txt break.before="1"><legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="pt.4" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" check="invalid">pt&#160;4</legref> comm 1 November 2025 (see <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="sec.2" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" 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automatically be repealed under AIA <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" refid="sec.22C" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8" check="invalid">s&#160;22C</legref> at the beginning of the day after all of its provisions have commenced.</txt></commencement></commencements></actentry></legislationlist><creationhistory project.no="B25_0018" title="Penalties and Sentences (Sexual Offences) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025"><evententry name="Introduced" event.date="2025-05-20"><associateddoc print.type="bill.first" target.doc.id="bill-2025-018" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8">Bill (Introduction)</associateddoc><associateddoc print.type="bill.first.exp" target.doc.id="bill-2025-018" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8">Explanatory Note</associateddoc><associateddoc print.type="bill.first.hrc" target.doc.id="bill-2025-018" target.version.series="5c588b07-fe37-4d1b-aa40-b4f44f4b4fc8">Human Rights Statement of Compatibility</associateddoc></evententry><evententry name="3rd Reading" event.date="2025-09-17"/><evententry name="Assent" event.date="2025-09-19"><associateddoc print.type="act.new" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" target.version.series="6be10407-1860-4b34-9053-f107644636cd">Act 2025, No. 20</associateddoc></evententry></creationhistory></leghistory>
