Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 2) 1956 (WA)

No. 43.] Criminal Code (No. 2). [1956.

CRIMINAL CODE (No. 2).

5° Elizabeth II., No. XLIII.

No. 43 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code.

[Assented to 18th December, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal

Code Amendment Act (No. 2), 1956.

(2) In this Act

Reprinted in

Vol. 8 of the	"Code" means the Criminal Code set forth in
Reprinted

Acts.	the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act, 1913,
Approved for
reprint, 29th	set forth in Appendix B to the Criminal Code
June. 1955.	Act Compilation Act, 1913 (Act No. 28 of 1913), as reprinted with amendments to and

1956.] Criminal Code (No. 2). [No. 43.

including Act No. 73 of 1954 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amend- ments Incorporation Act, 1938, and further amended by Act No. 11 of 1956.

six hundred and sixty-eight the following section:— Code. 2. The Code is amended by adding after section LEstto

668A. Where a person is convicted of an indictable offence of which the use of a motor vehicle is an element, whether as the driver of the motor vehicle or not, then the Court, in addition to any punishment inflicted upon the convicted person, shall

(a)	if the convicted person holds any license to drive under the Traffic Act, 1919-1956, suspend that license; or
(b)	if the convicted person does not hold any such license, disqualify him from obtaining such a license,

for a period of not less than six months nor more than three years from the date of the conviction, or if he is sentenced to a term of imprisonment, from the date of the expiration of such term, whichever is the later date.

Provided that where the convicted person is under the age of seventeen years, the period of disqualification shall commence from which- ever is the later date of the date on which he attains that age, or, if he is sentenced to a term of imprisonment or to detention in an industrial or reformatory school, of the date of the expiration of such term or period of detention.