Police Offences Act 1961 (ACT)

58 No. 1. Police Offences. 1961.

POLICE OFFENCES.

No. 1 of 1961.

A n Ordinance to amend the Police Offences Ordinance

1930-1959.

Short title

and citation.	1,—(i.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Offences Ordinance 1961.*
(2.) The Police Offences Ordinance 1930-1959f is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi- nance, may be cited as the Police Offences Ordinance 1930-1961.
2. Section four of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—
Parts.	" 4. This Ordinance is divided into Parts, as follows:—

Part I.—Preliminary (Sections 1-5).

Part II.—Offences in Relation to Stock (Sections

6-9).

Part III.—Offences Generally (Sections 10-37).

Part IV.—Offences in Specified Localities (Sections

38-56).

Part VI.—Miscellaneous (Sections 72-89).".

Definitions.	3. Section five of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after the definition of " Court" the following definition:—
Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

" ' Licensed premises' has the same meaning as in the

Liquor Ordinance 1929-1959;".

4. After section eleven of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted:—

Noise in	" 11A. A person shall not, in a public place or in licensed noise as might reasonably, in the circumstances, cause substan- tial annoyance to another person, whether that other person is in the public place or licensed premises or elsewhere.
public place
or licensed	premises, make, or cause, permit or suffer to be made, such a
premises.

Penalty: Ten pounds.".

* Made on 9th March, 1961; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 29th March, 1961.

t Ordinance No. 9, 1930, as amended by No. 10, 1934; No. 31, 1937; Nos. 7 and 10, 1939; No. 3, 1948; No. 12, 1953; and No. 21, 1959.