PUNISHMENT OF
OFFENCES.
No. 14 of 1901.
An Act to make provision for the Punishment
of Offences against the Laws of the Commonwealth.
[Assented to 17th
December, 1901.]
BE it enacted by the King’s
Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and duration.
1. This Act may be cited as the Punishment
of Offences Act 1901, and shall cease to have effect upon the establishment
of the High Court.
Application of State laws.
2.The laws of each State respecting the arrest and custody of
offenders, and the procedure for their summary conviction or for their
examination and commitment for trial on indictment or information and for
holding accused persons to bail, shall apply and be applied so far as they are
applicable to persons who are charged with offences against the laws of the
Commonwealth committed within that State, or whose trial for offences committed
elsewhere may lawfully be held therein.
Jurisdiction of State courts.
3.The several courts and magistrates of each State exercising
jurisdiction with respect to the summary conviction, or examination and
commitment for trial, or trial upon indictment or information, of offenders
against the laws of the State, shall have the like jurisdiction with respect to
persons who are charged with offences against the laws of the Commonwealth
committed within that State, or who may lawfully be tried within that State for
offences committed elsewhere.
Provided that such jurisdiction
shall not be judicially exercised with respect to the summary conviction or
examination and commitment for trial of any person except by a Stipendiary,
Police, or Special Magistrate, or some Magistrate of the State who is specially
authorized by the Governor-General to exercise such jurisdiction.
Appeals.
4.