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Terms of reference
The terms of reference are instructions which explain what a committee has been asked to do, what topics it should focus on, and how its members will work together to achieve its shared goals.
Received from the Legislative Assembly 14th March 2000
To the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee - for inquiry, consideration and report by the first day of the Autumn 2001 Parliamentary sittings into the issue of public drunkenness. In particular, the Committee is to:
a. consider the appropriateness of the existing law in Victoria relating to public drunkenness;
b. identify any law reform the Committee considers necessary to deal with public drunkenness;
c. review the adequacy of existing strategies for dealing with persons arrested for public drunkenness, such as diversion of people from police custody into sobering-up centres.
In conducting the Inquiry the Committee is to have regard to:
a. approaches taken to this issue in other Australian jurisdictions;
b. the Final Report (published in 1991) of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
c. such other legislation, case law, reports and materials as are relevant to the Inquiry.
To the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee - for inquiry, consideration and report by the first day of the Autumn 2001 Parliamentary sittings into the issue of public drunkenness. In particular, the Committee is to:
a. consider the appropriateness of the existing law in Victoria relating to public drunkenness;
b. identify any law reform the Committee considers necessary to deal with public drunkenness;
c. review the adequacy of existing strategies for dealing with persons arrested for public drunkenness, such as diversion of people from police custody into sobering-up centres.
In conducting the Inquiry the Committee is to have regard to:
a. approaches taken to this issue in other Australian jurisdictions;
b. the Final Report (published in 1991) of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
c. such other legislation, case law, reports and materials as are relevant to the Inquiry.