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The ACT’s Animal Welfare Act 1992 creates a number of criminal offences consisting of acts of cruelty to animals. The act applies to all vertebrates and cephalopods as well as to crustaceans intended for human consumption. The Act also regulates the treatment of farm animals and provides for codes of practice to be made to…

Laws surrounding abortion vary widely between different states and territories. Abortion was decriminalised in the ACT in 2002 and the ACT now has the most liberal abortion laws in the country. Women can obtain an abortion ‘on demand’ at any point in their pregnancy. The ACT has also enacted provisions making it a criminal offence…

Under the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 2016, victims of acts of violence in the ACT can obtain financial assistance for expenses incurred as a result of physical or psychological injuries. The scheme allows victims of violent offences, witnesses to homicides and the close family members of homicide victims to obtain financial assistance. In…

The ACT has only one adult prison facility, which is the public operated Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), located on the Monaro Highway in Hume. AMC has been operating since 2009, before which ACT prisoners were sent to New South Wales prisons. AMC houses both those sentenced to imprisonment and those being held on remand. It…