Prostitution (Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Prostitution (Consequential Amendments)

Act 1992

No. 65 of 1992

An Act to amend certain laws consequent on the Prostitution Act 1992

[Notified in ACT Gazette S208: 1 December 1992]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Prostitution (Consequential Amendments) Act 1992.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  The remaining provisions commence on a day, or respective days, fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3)  If a provision referred to in subsection (2) has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette,  that provision, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.

Common law offences

3.  Any offence at common law relating to prostitution, including keeping a brothel or common bawdy house, ceases to have any force or effect in the Territory.

Crimes Act, 1900—amendment

4.  Section 92N of the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory is repealed.

Police Act 1927—amendments

5.  (1) Section 15 of the Police Act 1927 is repealed.

(2) Section 17 of the Police Act 1927 is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “common prostitute or”.

(3) Section 21 of the Police Act 1927 is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “common prostitute or”.

Police Offences Act 1930—amendments

6.  (1) Section 5 of the Police Offences Act 1930 is amended by omitting the definition of “Brothel”.

(2) Sections 18, 19, 19A and 23 of the Police Offences Act 1930 are repealed.

(3) Section 34 of the Police Offences Act 1930 is amended by omitting “prostitutes or”.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 8 April 1992]

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