Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 2) 1963 (WA)

1963.] Criminal Code (No. 2). [No. 55.

CRIMINAL CODE (No. 2).

12° Elizabeth II., No. LV.

No. 55 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend sections six hundred and seventy and six hundred and eighty, and repeal section seven hundred and thirty-five of the Criminal Code.

[Assented to 17th December, 19631

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

Code Amendment Act (No. 2), 1963.

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(2) In this Act

the Reprinted

Acts.

"the Code" means the Criminal Code set forth	Approved
for reprint

in the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act,	29th June,
1955, and
1913, set forth in Appendix B to the	further
amended as
Criminal Code Act Compilation Act, 1913,	in this section mentioned.

No. 55.] Criminal Code (No. 2). [1963.

Act No. 28 of 1913, as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 73 of 1954 incorporated pursuant to the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and further amended by Acts Nos. 11 of 1956, 43 of 1956, 74 of 1956, 50 of 1957, 25 of 1960, 50 of 1960, 28 of 1961 and 35 of 1962.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

to be fixed by proclamation.

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amended.	3. Section six hundred and seventy of the Code is amended by deleting the passage, "or being any aboriginal native," in line two.
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amended. 4. Section six hundred and eighty of the Code

is amended

(a)	by deleting the passage, "and except in the case of an aboriginal native," in line six; and
(b)	by deleting the paragraph commencing with the words, "The punishment", in line fourteen down to and including the passage, "sergeant." in line seventeen.

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repealed. 5. Section seven hundred and thirty-five of the

Code is repealed.