THE TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
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Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1987
No. 16 of 1987
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Christmas Island Act 1958.
Dated 21 December 1987.
H. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
BARRY JONES
Minister of State for SCIENCE AND SMALL BUSINESS
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An Ordinance to amend the Interpretation Ordinance 1958
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1987.1
Principal Ordinance
2. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Interpretation Ordinance 1958.2
Application of Acts Interpretation Act to Ordinances
3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “subsection 30 (2)” and substituting “section 30”.
4. After section 11 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted:
Offences under 2 or more laws
“12. (1) Where an act or omission constitutes offences under 2 or more Ordinances, or constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an offence at common law, the offender is, unless the contrary intention appears, liable to be prosecuted and convicted under either or any of those Ordinances or under that Ordinance or at common law, but is not liable to be punished more than once in respect of that act or omission.
“(2) Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an Act and the offender has been punished for the offence under the Act, the offender is not liable to be punished for the offence under the Ordinance.”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 January 1981.
2. No. 1, 1958, as amended by No. 1, 1960; No. 1, 1962; No. 4, 1964; No. 1, 1966; No. 2, 1967; No. 2, 1968; No. 4, 1972; No. 2, 1973; No. 3, 1976; No. 7, 1977; No. 9, 1980; No. 6, 1987.