First Offenders (Women) Repeal Act 1976 (NSW)

A N N O VICESIMO Q U I N T O

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 5, 1976.

An Act to repeal the First Offenders (Women) Act, 1918.

[Assented to, 24th March, 1976.]

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BE

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

1.     This Act may be cited as the "First Offenders (Women)

Repeal Act, 1976".

2. The First Offenders (Women) Act, 1918, is hereby repealed.

(1) Where a woman has, before the date of assent to this Act, been charged before any court with a minor offence and the hearing of the charge and all proceedings in connec­ tion therewith have not been completed before that date, the hearing and those proceedings shall be continued and com­ pleted and everything done in relation thereto as if this Act had not been enacted.

3.

(2) If any person publishes a report or account of any proceedings that arose out of a charge made before the date of assent to this Act and the publication of that report or account would, but for section 2, have constituted an offence under section 4 or 5 of the First Offenders (Women)

punished accordingly in all respects as if section 2 had not	Act, 1918, that person is guilty of that offence and may be
been enacted.