Married Women's Property Act 1896 (WA)

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ANNO SEXAGESIMO

VICTORIA, REGINA,.

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No. VIII.

AN ACT to amend the Sixteenth Section of the

Married Women's Property Act, 1.892.

[Assented to, 23rd September, le96.]

HEREAS by Section Sixteen of the Married Women's Preamble.

Property Act, 1892, a wife is, under the circumstances 55 Viet., No. 20.

therein mentioned, declared to be liable to criminal proceedings by her husband, and a doubt has arisen as to whether the husband is admissible as a witness against his wife in such criminal proceedings, while section twelve of the same Act declares that, in any proceeding under that section, a husband or wife shall be competent to give

should be removed, and the said Act otherwise amended: Be it (Imp).	evidence against each other ; and it is desirable that the said doubt See 47 Yid' o. 14
therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

60° VICTORI/E, No. 8.

Married Women's Property, 1896.

1.     IN any such criminal proceeding against a husband or a

Husband or wife	wife as is authorised by the Married Women's Property Act, 1892,
in criminal proceed-	the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and admissible
ings under 55 Viet.,
No. 20.	witnesses, and, except when defendant, compellable to give evidence.

competent witnesses

THIS Act may be cited as the Married Women's Property Act, 1896, and this Act and the Married Women's Property Acts, 1892 and 1895, may be cited together as the Married Women's Property Acts, 1892-1896.

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In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

GERARD SMITH, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETTIER, Government Printer, Perth.