Unauthorised Documents Act Amendment Act 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

UNAUTHORISED

DOCUMENTS.

No. 59. of 1979.

AN ACT to amend the Unauthorised Documents

Act, 1961.

[Assented to 12th November, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Unauthorised Short title and

Documents Act Amendment Act, 1979. citation.

(2) In this Act the Unauthorised Documents Act, Act No. 8 of 1961.

1961 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Unauthorised Documents Act, 1961-

No. 59.] Unauthorised Documents. [1979.

Commence-

2.    This Act shall come into operation on the date

ment.

of the coming into operation of the Armorial

Bearings Protection Act, 1979.

Long title

amended. 3. The long title of the principal Act is amended

by deleting the passage "the unauthorised use of the

Royal or other Arms, and" in lines one and two.

Section 4

repealed. 4. The principal Act is amended by repealing

section 4.

Section 5

Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the passage "Penalty: Fifty pounds." and substituting the passage "Penalty: Five hundred dollars.".

amended. 5.