Court of Petty Sessions Act 1961 (ACT)

1961. Court of Petty Sessions. No. 2. 59

C0UKT OF PETTY SESSIONS.

No. 2 of 1961.

An Ordinance to amend the Court of Petty Sessions

Ordinance 1930-1958.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Court of Short title and

Petty Sessions Ordinance 1961.*	citation'
(2.) The Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930-1958f is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi- nance, may be cited as the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930-1961.
2. After section twenty of the Principal Ordinance, the following section is inserted:—
" 2 0 A . — ( 1 . )	Subject to this Ordinance, the Court has the CM
same jurisdiction to hear and determine a civil action for Court in	action for
nuisance caused by noise as the Supreme Court and has power	nuisance.
to grant in such an action the same relief as the Supreme Court has power to grant in a like action instituted in that Court.
" (2.) A person shall not contravene or fail to comply with an order made by the Court in an action for nuisance caused by noise.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.".

3. Section thirty-two of the Principal Ordinance is amended commence-

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word "Ordinance", by entry of

the words " or for nuisance caused by noise ". complaint.

* Made on 9th March, 1961; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 29th March, 1961.

t Ordinance No. 21, 1930, as amended by No. 21, 1932; No. 17, 1934; No. 13, 1936; Nos. 5 and 28, 1937; Nos. 25 and 35, 1938; Nos. 20 and 22, 1940; No. 13, 1949; Nos. 7 and 12, 1951; No. 14, 1953; and No. 12, 1958.