Public Place Definition Act of 1877 No 2a (NSW)

1877. 40” VIC. Nos. 16 & 17.

Fublic Place Definition— Consolidated Revenue Fund (No. 2).

No. XVI.

An Act to define the term Public Place.	P ublic
D e fin it io n .

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\ltli February, 1877.]

T 3 E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with 1 ^ the advice and consent of the Legislatn'O Council and Legisla­

tive Assembly of New South "Wales in Parliament assembled and by

the authority of the same as follows

1. "Where an act or offence committed in any pul)lic place is by Meaning of the

statute made punishable or a person there committing’ such act or	p'®	'®*
offence is made liable to apprehension 1lie place of commission shall be deemed public for the purposes of such statute if such place (although a vessel vehicle or room only or a place ordinarily private) was at the time used for a public purpose or was open to the ptihlic on the payment of money or otherwise.

2. This Act may he cited as the “ Public Place Definition Act Short title,

of 1877.”