Court of Petty Sessions (Amendment) Act 1985 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Court of Petty Sessions (Amendment) Ordinance 1985

No. 17 of 1985

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 11 April 1985.

JAMES RAMSEY

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Court of Petty Sessions (Amendment) Ordinance 1985.¹

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930.²

Interpretation

3.  Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of “Deputy Crown Solicitor”.

Repeal

4.  Section 27A of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

Recognizances to be transmitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions

5.  Section 101 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “Deputy Crown Solicitor” and substituting “Director of Public Prosecutions or a person authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions”.

Transmission of depositions, &c., to Director of Public Prosecutions

6.  Section 106 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “Deputy Crown Solicitor” and substituting “Director of Public Prosecutions or a person authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions”.

Delivery of documents to proper officer of Court

7.  Section 107 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1) “Deputy Crown Solicitor” and substituting “Director of Public Prosecutions or a person authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-section (2) “Deputy Crown Solicitor,” and substituting “Director of Public Prosecutions, a person authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the person representing the Director of Public Prosecutions”.

Notice dispensed with

8.  Section 225 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) “one hundred and six of this Ordinance, to the Deputy Crown Solicitor” and substituting “106, to the Director of Public Prosecutions or a person authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 April 1985.

2. 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; No. 12, 1958; No. 2, 1961; No. 2, 1966; No. 1, 1967; No. 25, 1968; No. 12, 1969; No. 15, 1970; No. 37, 1972; No. 48, 1973; Nos. 14 and 47, 1974; No. 42, 1976; Nos. 4, 34, 56 and 61, 1977; No. 46, 1978; Nos. 33 and 41, 1979; Nos. 4 and 10, 1980; Nos. 2 and 3, 1982; Nos. 9, 10, 16, 61 and 62, 1984.