Evidence (Penalties) Act 1898 (NSW)

Act No. 12, 1898.

An Act to make temporary provision with

respect to certain unrepealed Enactments

relating to Evidence. [27th July, 1898.]

1898, and by reason thereof doubts and difficulties may arise in the	WHEREAS the Acts mentioned in the Schedule have been in part repealed for the purposes of consolidation by the Evidence Act,
interpretation and application of the unrepealed parts of the said Acts ; and it is expedient to provide against the said doubts and difficulties pending further consolidation : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the " Evidence (Penalties) Act, 1898."
2. The following sections and parts of sections, that is to say—

The unrepealed part of section five of the Act thirteenth Victoria number sixteen, section ten, and the unrepealed part of section eleven of the Act sixteenth Victoria number fourteen, section ten of the Act twenty-second Victoria number seven, the unrepealed part of section nine of the Act fifty-fifth Victoria number five—

shall be read and construed and have the same force and effect as if the
parts of the said Acts mentioned in the Schedule had not been repealed.

3. Nothing in this Act shall give to any section or part of a section

hereinbefore mentioned any more or other force or effect than it had
immediately before the passing of the Evidence Act, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

Reference to Act . Title or short title. Repealed sections.

Act

13 Vic. No. 1 6 . . An Act to amend the law of evidence, and to facilitate Sections 1, 2,

the admission as evidence of certain official and	3, and 4.
other documents, and to give protection to persons employed in the printing and publication of papers by the order and authority of the Legislative Council or a committee thereof.

16 Vic. No. 1 4 . .	An Act to amend the law of evidence	Sections 7, 8, and 9.
22 Vic. No. 7	An Act for the further amendment of the law of	Sections 7, 8,

evidence. and 9.

55 Vic. No. 5 . .	Criminal Law and Evidence Amendment Act of 1891	The repealed part
of section 9.