Interpretation (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Interpretation (Amendment) Act (No. 2)
1994

No. 80 of 1994

An Act to amend the Interpretation Act 1967

[Notified in ACT Gazette S253: 29 November 1994]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1994.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  Section 4 commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3)  If section 4 has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, that section, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Interpretation Act 1967.1

Insertion

4.  After section 33 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Penalty units

“33AA.  Where the penalty for an offence is expressed in an Act as a number of penalty units, the reference to the number of penalty units shall be read as a reference to an amount of money equal to the amount obtained by multiplying $100 by that number.”.

Note

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1991.  See also Acts Nos. 9 and 23, 1992; Nos. 1, 41 and 43, 1993; and No. 59, 1994.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 16 December 1993]

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