Act No. 21, 1911.
An Act to amend the Crimes Act, 1900, and the Crimes (Girls' Protection) Act, 1910. [21st December, 1911.]
| BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with | Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the |
the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative
authority of the same, as follows :—
1 . This Act mav be cited as the "Crimes (Girls' Protection)
Amendment Act, 1911.'"
2 . Section two of the Crimes (Girls' Protection) Act, 1910, is
amended—
(a)
by the omission of the words " and seventy-eight " and the words " or seventy-eight " ; and
(b)
by the insertion after " fourteen years " of the words " and consented to the commission of the alleged offence " ; and
c (c)
(c)
by the omission of the second proviso and the substitution therefor of the words " and provided also that no prosecution may be commenced for any offence under sections seventy-one, seventy-two, or seventy-seven of the Principal Act after the expiration of six months from the time of the commission of the said offence where any such olfence has been committed upon a girl above the age of fourteen years and under the age of sixteen years,
3 . Section seventy-eight of the Crimes Act, 1900, as amended
by the Crimes (Girls' Protection) Act, 1910, is amended by the
omission of the words " of or above the a<i'e of sixteen years."