Education Amendment Act 2001 (ACT)

Education Amendment Act 2001

No 51 of 2001

An Act to amend the Education Act 1937

[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 28: 12 July 2001]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Education Amendment Act 2001.

2. Act amended

   This Act amends the Education Act 1937.

3. Title

   after

   education

   insert

   and related matters

4. New section 36A

   insert

36AOffences on school premises

1. A person must not, without reasonable excuse, trespass on school premises.

   Maximum penalty:  5 penalty units.

2. A person must not, without reasonable excuse—

   (a)behave in an offensive or disorderly way on school premises; or

   (b)fail to leave school premises when directed to do so by a police officer or an authorised person.

   Maximum penalty:  10 penalty units.

3. In this section:

   authorised person, for a school, means—

   (a)the person (however described) responsible for the conduct of the school (the principal); or

   (b)a person authorised by the principal to give directions mentioned in subsection (2).

   school means a primary school, high school or secondary college—

   (a)conducted on behalf of the Territory; or

   (b)registered or provisionally registered under this Act.

   school premises means land (including any building or structure on the land) occupied by a school.

Endnotes

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 31 July 1999 (Republication No 3).  See also Acts 1999 Nos 64 and 66.

Penalty units

1. The Interpretation Act 1967, s 33AA deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 28 March 2001]

©  Australian Capital Territory 2001