1: Title
This Act is the District Court (District Court Judges) Amendment Act 2025
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on 13 March 2025. Section 2 editorial change 10 April 2025 sections 86(1) 87(m) Legislation Act 2019
3: Principal Act
This Act amends the District Court Act 2016 2025-03-13 District Court Act 2016
4: Section 12 amended (Maximum number of Judges)
1: In section 12(1) 182 183
2: In section 12(2)(c) 181.5 182.5


1: Title
This Act is the Bail (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Act 2025.
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on 13 March 2025. Section 2 editorial change 10 April 2025 sections 86(1) 87(m) Legislation Act 2019
3: Principal Act
This Act amends the Bail Act 2000 2025-03-13 Bail Act 2000
1: Substantive amendments
4: Section 30M amended (Authorised absence from EM address)
Replace section 30M(1) to (3) Court may authorise absence from EM address
1: A court may, when granting bail with an EM condition, authorise the defendant to be absent from the EM address. Registrar’s authorisation if prosecution agrees
2: However, a Registrar may exercise the power conferred on a court by subsection (1) Authorisations under section are subject to related sections
3: An authorisation under this section is subject to sections 30MA to 30MC
5: New sections 30MA to 30MC inserted
After section 30M
30MA: Court must specify authorisation’s purpose or purposes
In authorising a defendant to be absent from the EM address under section 30M, the court must specify the purpose or purposes for which the defendant may be absent.
30MB: Court must specify all details of authorisation or enable EM assessor to approve authorised absence
1: In authorising a defendant to be absent from the EM address under section 30M, the court must—
a: specify all details of an authorisation; or
b: enable an EM assessor to approve, in their discretion, the defendant to be absent from the EM address in line with an authorisation’s—
i: specified purpose or purposes; and
ii: details specified under subsection (2)
2: In enabling an EM assessor to approve an authorised absence under subsection (1)(b)
a: specify all details of an authorisation; or
b: specify some details of an authorisation, and enable or require an EM assessor, in approving the authorised absence, to specify other details of the authorisation that—
i: are not inconsistent with the details specified by the court; and
ii: are or include the time or times of any day during which the defendant may be absent, if not specified by the court; or
c: enable or require an EM assessor, in approving the authorised absence, to specify all details of an authorisation (other than the place or places that the defendant may go to while absent, because the EM assessor must decide, in their discretion, whether to specify that detail under this paragraph).
30MC: Meaning of details of authorisation
In section 30MB details section 30MB(1) or (2)
a: the time or times of any day during which the defendant may be absent:
b: the place or places that the defendant may go to while absent:
c: any other requirements that the defendant must meet that the court, or an EM assessor, decides to specify under section 30MB(1) or (2) Examples
Other requirements Authorised routes to or from an authorised place. Authorised modes of transport to or from an authorised place.
2: Other amendments
6: Schedule 1AA amended
In Schedule 1AA
a: insert the Part set out in the Schedule
b: make all necessary consequential amendments.


1: Title
This Act is the Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Act 2025.
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on 14 March 2025. Section 2 editorial change 10 April 2025 sections 86(1) 87(m) Legislation Act 2019
3: Principal Act
This Act amends the Crimes Act 1961 2025-03-14 Crimes Act 1961
4: Section 2 amended (Interpretation)
In section 2(1) crime involving dishonesty 267 220AA
5: New section 220AA inserted (Theft by employer)
Before section 220A
220AA: Theft by employer
1: This section applies to a person ( A
a: employs another person ( B
b: is required to pay any money owed to B in relation to the employment under—
i: an employment agreement (whether or not the agreement is in writing); or
ii: an Act (for example, the Holidays Act 2003, the Minimum Wage Act 1983, or the Wages Protection Act 1983).
2: A commits theft if A intentionally fails, without reasonable excuse, to pay the money to B.
3: In this section,— employ employment employment agreement homeworker