Returned Servicemen's Badges Act 1960 (ACT)

Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1960 (repealed)

A1960-10

Republication No 2

Effective:  5 March 1996

Republication date: 19 November 2008

As repealed by A1996-1 sch

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel's Office

About this republication

The republished law

This is a republication of the Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1960 (repealed) effective 5 March 1996.

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returned servicemen’s badges act
1960

This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

Repealed by No. 1, 1996 (in force 4 March 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

1.Short title

2.Interpretation

3.Unauthorised wearing of R.S.L. badge

An Act to prohibit the Unauthorized Wearing of Membership Badges issued by the Returned Sailors’, Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1960.1

Interpretation

2.  In this Act, “the League” means the Returned Sailors’ Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia.

Unauthorised wearing of R.S.L. badge

3.  (1)  A person shall not wear a badge issued by the League unless he is the person to whom the badge was issued.

(2)  A person to whom a badge has been issued by the League shall not wear the badge if that person is not entitled, under the Rules of the League, to wear the badge.

Penalty:  Fifty dollars.

NOTE

1.  The Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1960 as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 10, 1960 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989  (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.

Table of Ordinances

Ordinance Number  and year Date of notification in Gazette Date of commencement Application, saving or transitional provisions

Returned Servicemen’s Badges Ordinance1960	10, 1960		24 Nov 1960			24 Nov 1960
Ordinances Revision (Decimal Currency) Ordinance 1966	19, 1966		23 Dec 1966			23 Dec 1966	—
as repealed by
Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996			1, 1996		4 March 1996	4 March 1996 (s 2) and Gaz 1996 No S31)

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted   am. = amended     rep. = repealed   rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision                   How affected

S. 3.................................... am. No. 19, 1966