Practitioners should note that the remaining provisions of the Making Queensland Safer Act 2025 (MQS Act) will commence today, Friday, 28 February.
The provisions will:
- enable childhood findings of guilt to be admissible for a circumstance of aggravation relating to previous convictions for offences of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in certain circumstances
- ensure a child’s criminal history (as defined in section 6 of the Youth Justice Act 1992 as inserted by the MQS Act)reflects their full history, and
- enable a person’s child criminal history to be admitted when sentenced as an adult for a period of five years from the date of the outcome for the last childhood offence.