Crimes (Girls' Protection) Amendment Act 1911 (NSW)

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."