Crimes Amendment Act 2000 (No 2) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Crimes Amendment Act 2000 (No 2)

No 56 of 2000

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900

[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 40: 5 October 2000]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Crimes Amendment Act 2000 (No 2).

2. Commencement

   This Act commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Note 1   The provisions of an Act providing for its name and commencement automatically commence on the date of notification of the Act (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10B).

Note 2   A single day or time may be fixed, or different days or times may be fixed for different provisions (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10C (1)).

Note 3   If a provision has not commenced within 6 months beginning on the date of notification of the Act, it automatically commences on the first day after that period (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10E (2)).

1. Act amended

   This Act amends the Crimes Act 1900.

2. Insertion

   After section 496 the following section is inserted:

“497   Retail supplier of knives to display sign

“(1)    A person who sells knives by retail must ensure that a sign complying with subsections (2), (3) and (4) is clearly visible to a person at the place, or each place, where such a sale is made.

Maximum penalty:  5 penalty units.

“(2)    The sign must display at least the following words in the following sequence:

‘It is an offence to sell a knife to a person under the age of 16.

Proof of age may be required.’.

“(3)    The lettering of the words stated in subsection (2) must be at least 8 mm in height.

“(4)    The dimensions of the sign must not be less than 210 mm x 145 mm.

“(5)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a person, or a knife, of a kind specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations.”.

Endnotes

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 10 November 1999 (Republication No 6).  See also Acts 1999 Nos 71, 79 and 91; 2000 No 3.

Penalty units

1. Section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 1 March 2000]

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