Small Claims (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Small Claims (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 25 of 1991

An Act to amend the Small Claims Act 1974

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 44: 4 June 1991]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Small Claims (Amendment) Act 1991.

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 the day on which the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1991, other than sections 1 and 2, commence.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Small Claims Act 1974.1

Judgment etc. to be paid to Clerk or as directed

4.  Section 43 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of subsection (1) “or as the Court otherwise directs”.

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NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 6, 1974 as amended by No. 42, 1974; No. 46, 1978; No. 55, 1982; Nos. 21 and 67, 1985; No. 14, 1987; Nos. 21, 25 and 54, 1989; No. 5, 1990.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 2 May 1991]

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