Crimes (Amendment) Act 1988 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 44 of 1988

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 25 July 1988.

N.M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

MICHAEL TATE

Minister of State for Justice
for and on behalf of the Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application to the Territory

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1

The Crimes Act

2.  In this Ordinance, “the Crimes Act” means the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application to the Territory.

Repeal

3.  Sections 44 and 45 of the Crimes Act are repealed.

Apprehended violence or injury—recognizance to keep the peace

4.  Section 547 of the Crimes Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subsection (1) “wife” and substituting “or her spouse”;

(b)by inserting in subsection (1) “or her” after “his” (second occurring); and

(c)by inserting in subsection (2) “or she” after “he”.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 July 1988.