Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1983 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Police Offences (Amendment) Ordinance

1983

No. 56 of 1983

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth o( Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Sea/ of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 11 November 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

GARETH EVANS

Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Police Offences Ordinance 1930

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Offences (Amendment)

Ordinance 1983:

Principal Ordinance

Ordinance 1930.1 2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Police Offences

public, whether on payment of money or otherwise;".

Interpretation

3. Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)	by omitting the definitions of "Boat", "Licensed premises" and "Misdemeanour";
(b)	by omitting "woman or women" from paragraph (b) of the definition of "Brothel" and substituting "person or persons"; and
(c)	by omitting the definition of "Public place" and "place of public resort" and substituting the following definition:

" 'Public place' or 'place of public resort' means any street, road, public park within the meaning of the Public Parks Ordinance 1928, or reserve or any building, premises or other place which the public are entitled to use or which is open to, or used by, the

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Prostitution and gaming offences

4. Section 23 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)	by omitting paragraphs (1) (a) to (i), inclusive;
(b)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (ja) "being a male person,";
(c)	by omitting paragraphs (1) (n) to (r), inclusive;
(d)	by omitting from sub-section (1) "shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond within the meaning of this Ordinance, and"; and

(e) by omitting sub-section (2).

Regulation of places of public resort

5. Section 34 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting paragraph

(a).

Repeals

6. (1) Parts II and IV of the Principal Ordinance are repealed.

(2) Each provision of the Principal Ordinance specified in the Schedule is

repealed.

S C H E D U L E Section 6

PROVISIONS REPEALED

Section 10, 11, 11 A, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1 7A, 1 7B, 20, 21, 22, 24, 24A, 24B, 25,26,27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,

72, 73, 74, 75,76,77, 78, 79, 80,81,82, 83, 84, 85, 86,87,88.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazetteon 18 November 1983.

2.     No. 9, 1930 as amended by No. 10,1934; No. 31, 1937; Nos. 7 and 10, 1939; No. 3, 1948;

No. 12, 1953; No. 21, 1959; No. 1, 1961; No. 19, 1966; No. 3, 1967; No. 41,1970; No. 35,

1975; No. 65, 1977; No. 46, 1978; No. 17, 1980.