Bail Act 1978

Bail Act 1978
Coat of Arms of New South Wales
Coat of Arms of New South Wales
Parliament of New South Wales
  • An Act relating to bail for accused persons in or in connection with criminal proceedings.
Commenced17 March 1980[1]
Repeals
Repealed on 19 May 2014[2]
Amended by
Bail (Amendment) Act 1986, Bail (Amendment) Act 1987, Bail (Personal and Family Violence) Amendment Act 1987, Bail (Amendment) Act 1988, Bail (Domestic Violence) Amendment Act 1993, Bail Amendment (Repeat Offenders) Act 2002, Bail (Presumption Against Bail) Amendment Act 2007
Related legislation
Victims Rights Act 1996
Status: Repealed

The Bail Act 1978 is a former New South Wales law[3] that has been repealed, and replaced with the Bail Act 2013.[4] While it was considered "groundbreaking" when enacted,[5] it has been reformed several times to increase a presumption against bail.[6]

The original legislation had three classes of eligibility for bail - minor offences where people were entitled to bail, offences where bail was favoured, and a third where there was no recommendation for or against bail.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Simpson p.1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Bail Act 1978 No 161 Repealed version for 1 December 2013 to 19 May 2014". NSW Legislation. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Bail Act 1978 (NSW)" (PDF). New South Wales government. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Bail Act 2013 (NSW)". New South Wales government. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  5. ^ Nicholas Cowdery (March 2012). "IELHSS Contemporary Comments: Criminal Justice in New South Wales under the new State Government". Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 3 (23): 447–457.
  6. ^ Shoebridge, David (August 2014). "Law reform: Bail law reforms in NSW". Alternative Law Journal. 39 (2): 132–133. doi:10.1177/1037969X1403900214. ISSN 1037-969X. S2CID 140897955. Retrieved 17 December 2014.