CO extern PAttztratta,
ANNO PRIMO ET SECUNDO
EDWARDI VII. REGIS.
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No. XIV.
AN ACT to establish a Code of Criminal
Law.
[Assented to, 49th February, 4902.]
HEREAS it is desirable to declare, consolidate, and
| Wamend the Criminal Law : Be it enacted and declared | Preamble. |
| by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent 'of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— |
| t | THIS Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Act, 1902. | Short title. |
| 2. ON and from the first day of May, One thousand ,nine | teblishment of |
| hundred and two, the provisions contained in the Code of Criminal | go |
| Law set forth in the First Schedule to this /Vet, and hereinafter | Schedule I. |
| called " the Code," shall be the law of Western Australia with | |
| respect to the several matters therein dealt with. |
The said Code may be cited as " The Criminal Code."
| 3. ON and from the coming into operation of the Code .) The several Statutes of the Realm mentioned in the | Repeal. |
Second Schedule to this Act, shall be repealed, so far as Schell ule IL
10 & 2° EDWARDI VII., No. 14.
Criminal Code.
they are in force in Western Australia, to the extent
in the said schedule indicated ;
(, 2. ) The several Statutes of Western Australia mentioned
| Schedule III. | in the Third Schedule to this Act shall be repealed to the extent in the said schedule indicated ; |
(3.) The several Statutes of Western Australia mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall. be amended in the manner in the said schedule indicated, and shall be read and construed as being so amended accordingly.
Schedule Iv
| Saving. | Provided as follows :- |
(I.) The repeal of any Statute or part of a Statute set forth in the said schedules shall not affect the construction of any other Statute, or of any other part of the same Statute, whether as regards the past or the future :
(2.) When any enactment not mentioned in the said schedules has been repealed, confirmed, revived, or perpetuated, by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, con- firmation, revivor, or perpetuation, shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Act :
(3.) This Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect, or consequences, of anything already done or suffered, or any existing status, or capacity, or any right, title, obligation, or liability, civil or criminal, already acquired accrued, or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim, or demand, or any indemnity, or the proof of any past act or thing ; and any action, prosecution, or other pro- ceeding‘ begun before the coming into operation of the Code, may, subject to the provisions of the Code, be continued as if this Act had not…