Pounds (Amendment) Act 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Pounds (Amendment) Ordinance 1984

No. 37 of 1984

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

Dated 16 July 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Pounds Ordinance 1928

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.¹

2.  After section 7 of the Pounds Ordinance 1928² the following section is inserted in Part I:

Causes of action not affected

“7A.  Nothing in this Ordinance affects any right that a person may have to recover damages or compensation apart from this Ordinance.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 July 1984.

2. No. 10, 1928 as amended by No. 5, 1930; No. 27, 1937; Nos. 5 and 21, 1959; No. 19, 1966; Nos. 64 and 65, 1977; No. 46, 1978; No. 35, 1983.