Commencement Proclamation (2008-469) (NSW)

2008 No 469

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Courts and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007 No 73

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Courts and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 3 November 2008 as the day on which Schedule 4 [9] to that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 29th day of October 2008.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,
Attorney General

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence an amendment to the Young Offenders Act 1997 that lowers from 16 years to 14 years the age at which a child may choose an adult to be present when the child makes an admission of an offence for the purposes of that Act.

BY AUTHORITY

Published in Gazette No 138 of 31 October 2008, page 10470 Page 1