State Children Act Amendment Act 1915 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUINTO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

L.

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No. 23 of 1915.

AN ACT to amend the State Children Act,

1907.

[Assented to 18th February, 1915.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia-	-B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.      This Act may be cited as the State Children Act Amendment Short title.

Act, 1915, and shall be read as one with the State Children Act,

1907, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2.      Subsection three of section eighteen of the principal Act is Amendment of

repealed, and a subsection is inserted in place thereof as follows :— section 18.

(8.) In the absence of a special magistrate or in places not within the area named in the Order-in-Council, the jurisdiction of a Children's Court may be exercised by any two or more justices of the peace or other persons, male or female, appointed by the

Ciovernor as members of the Children's Court.

By Authority: FRED WM. SEVPSON, Government Printer, Perth.