Administration of Justice Act 1968 (NSW)

An Act to amend the law relating to the administration of justice; to make further provision with respect to the mode of trial of certain classes of civil actions; to make further provision with respect to the payment or the provision of security for payment of moneys into court in civil actions; to enable the Court of Appeal, in special circumstances, to substitute its assessment for the verdict of a jury; to make further provision with respect to a liability of women for service on juries; to make further provision with respect to the attachment of wages; to amend certain procedures relating to minor traffic offences; to facilitate the substantiation of an information or complaint; to resolve certain doubts; to make amendments of a procedural or administrative nature to various Acts; for these and other purposes to amend the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965, and certain Acts amended by that Act, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1899, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.

Part 1Preliminary1Name of Act and citation(1)

This Act may be cited as the Administration of Justice Act 1968.

(2)

The Acts, as amended by subsequent Acts and by this Act, specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act may be cited as respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule.

2Commencement(1)

This Part of this Act shall commence on the day upon which the assent of Her Majesty to this Act is signified.

(2)

Subject to subsection one of this section this Act shall commence upon such day or days as may be appointed and notified pursuant to subsection three of this section.

(3)

The Governor may, from time to time, appoint and notify by proclamation published in the Gazette the day upon which any Part or provision of this Act specified in the proclamation shall commence and may appoint different days for different Parts or provisions (whether contained in the same Part or section or in different Parts or sections) and the Part or provision so specified shall commence accordingly.

3

(Repealed)

Part 2Amendment of Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 19654

(Repealed)

Parts 3–55–7

(Repealed)

Part 6Amendment of Matrimonial Causes Act 1899–19658

(Repealed)

Part 79, 10

(Repealed)

Part 8Amendment of Justices Act 1902–196711

(Repealed)

Parts 9, 1012, 13

(Repealed)

Part 11Minor traffic offences14

(Repealed)

15Certain orders to have effect(1)

Subject to subsection two of this section and for the avoidance of doubt, where before the commencement of section fourteen of the Administration of Justice Act 1968, an order was made under the provisions of section 18C of the Motor Traffic Act 1909, as amended by subsequent Acts, or by any such order the defendant was adjudged to pay costs in accordance with section eighty-one of the Justices Act 1902, as amended by subsequent Acts, the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection one of section 18C of the Motor Traffic Act 1909, as so amended, shall be deemed to have been complied with in respect of that order at the time it was made.

(2)

Subsection one of this section shall not apply to or in respect of the proceedings against Bruce Henry Goswell instituted by Norman Chris Culnane for contravening the provisions of Regulation 92 (1) Schedule F of the Regulations made under the Motor Traffic Act 1909, as amended by subsequent Acts, which was heard and determined at the Court of Petty Sessions, Redfern, on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight.

Schedule

(Section 1)

Reference to Act	Short title	Citation
No 32, 1965	Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965	Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965–1968
No 5, 1909	Motor Traffic Act 1909	Motor Traffic Act 1909–1968
No 14, 1899	Matrimonial Causes Act 1899	Matrimonial Causes Act 1899–1968
No 27, 1902	Justices Act 1902	Justices Act 1902–1968