Australian Capital Territory
Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1960
A1960-10
Republication No 1 (RI)
Effective:  23 December 1966 – 4 March 1996
Republication date of printed version: 31 July 1992
Reissued electronically: 19 November 2008
Last amendment made by A1966-19
(republication for initial republication 
since self-government)

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 effective 23 December 1966 to 4 March 1996.
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Australian Capital Territory

returned servicemen’s badges act 
1960
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
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 Ordinance 1960	10, 1960	24 Nov 1960	24 Nov 1960		
Ordinances Revision (Decimal Currency) Ordinance 1966
	19, 1966	23 Dec 1966	23 Dec 1966	—	

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 = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

S. 3	am. No. 19, 1966

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