Section 580 — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Certain charges not to be brought at common law

A person may not be charged with any common law offence in respect of any act committed upon or in relation to another person, being an act which could, but for the amendment of sections 79 and 80 and the repeal of sections 81, 81A and 81B by the Crimes (Amendment) Act 1984, have been the subject of a charge for an offence under any of those sections.

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Related sections

s 578C — Publishing indecent articles
s 578E — Offences relating to advertising or displaying products associated with sexual behaviour
s 579 — Evidence of proceedings dealt with by way of recognizance after 15 years
s 580A — Abolition of offence of being a common nightwalker
s 580B — Abolition of offences of eavesdropping and being a common scold
s 580C — Abolition of common law offences relating to brothels

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