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No. 15 of 1913.
AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code and to facilitate the enactment of a compilation of the Criminal Code Act, 1902, and its amend- ments, and to provide for the inclusion in the compilation of certain statutory provisions of the Criminal Law, and for other relative purposes.
[Assented to 15th December, 1913.]
| HEREAS the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, | Preamble. |
Wby resolutions passed on the twenty-second day of Decem-
ber, nineteen hundred and eleven, directed the compilation with its amendments of the Criminal Code Act, 1902, and such compilation has been duly made in accordance with the Statutes Compila- tion Act, 1905: And whereas it is' desirable before the enactment of such compilation to amend the Criminal Code (hereinafter called the Code) and to provide for the inclusion in the said com- pilation of such amendments and also of certain statutory pro- visions of the Criminal law: Be it therefore enacted 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 auth- ority of the same, as follows:—
| 1913, No. 15.] | Criminal Code Amendment. | [4 Gno. V. |
| Short title. | 1. | This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Amendment |
Act, 1913.
| Amendment of | 2. | The amendments indicated in the First Schedule to this Act |
| Chapter XIV., |
| Schedule. | are hereby made in Chapter XIV. of the Code. |
| Amendment of | 3. | Section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Code is hereby |
| Section 197. |
| Sees Edw. vii., | amended by the insertion in the first and also in the second para- |
| e. 45. | graph, before the word "daughter," of the words "mother or," and before the word "descendant" of the words "ancestress or." |
| Amendment of | 4. |
Section one hundred and ninety-eight of the Code is hereby amended by the insertion in the first and also in the second para- graph, after the word "father," of the words "or son," and after the word "ancestor" of the words "or descendant."
Section 198.
Ibid.
| Further amend- | 5. | The following paragraph is added to section one hundred |
| ment of Sections |
| 197 and 198. | and ninety-seven and also to section one hundred and ninety-eight of the Code: |
The mention of any relationship herein shall include any
such relationship, whether natural only or legitimate.
| Amendment of | 6. |
Section two hundred and six of the Code is repealed, and the following section is substituted, that is to say:-
Section 206.
| Common nthsanee- | 206. (1.) Any person who without lawful justification or excuse (the proof of which lies on him) does any act or omits to discharge any legal duty which act or omission endangers the lives, safety, health or property of the public or by which act or omission the comfort of the public is interfered with or the public are obstructed in the exercise or enjoyment of any common right,… |