Newspaper Libel and Registration Amendment Act 1981 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND

REGISTRATION.

No. 96 of 1981.

AN ACT to amend The Newspaper Libel and

Registration Act 1884.

[Assented to 4 December 1981.]

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

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Newspaper ETAtIvitii.

Libel and Registration Amendment Act 1981.

(2) In this Act The Newspaper Libel and Regi- Mr."

stration Act 1884 is referred to as the principal Act. piaAlleld7

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and Registration.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1884-1981.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the

twenty-eighth day after the day on which it is

assented to by the Governor.

Section 1

amended. 3. Section 1 of the principal Act is amended by

inserting before the definition of "Registrar" the

following definition-

" "Library Board" means The Library Board of Western Australia constituted under the Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951. "

Section 16

amended. 4. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended by

deleting "Colonial Secretary" and substituting the

following-

" Library Board "