Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1998 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1998

No. 28 of 1998

An Act to amend the Remand Centres Act 1976

[Notified in ACT Gazette S190: 10 July 1998]

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

1. Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Remand Centres (Amendment) Act 1998.

2. Commencement

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

4. The remaining provisions commence on the day on which the Magistrates Court (Amendment) Act 1998, other than sections 1 and 2, commences.

5. Principal Act

   In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Remand Centres Act 1976.1

6. Persons who may be detained

   Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended—

   (a)by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “or 105” and substituting “, 105 or 154D”; and

   (b)by omitting from paragraph (1) (d) “150, 151 or 181” and substituting “185”.

7. Application

   Subsection 15 (2) of the Remand Centres Act 1976 does not apply to a person whose detention in a remand centre immediately before the commencement of section 4 of this Act was by virtue of a committal under section 150 of the Magistrates Court Act 1930 as then in force.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 1 January 1997.  See also Acts Nos. 41 and 100, 1997.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 30 April 1998]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1998