AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Crimes Legislation (Status and Citation)
Act 1992
No. 6 of 1992

	[Notified in ACT Gazette S59: 28 May 1992]
An Act to provide for the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory to be treated as an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly and to be cited accordingly, and for related purposes
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Crimes Legislation (Status and Citation) Act 1992.
Interpretation
2.  In this Act—
“applied State Act” means the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory as amended and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act.
Status
3.  (1)  The applied State Act shall be taken to be, for all purposes, a law made by the Legislative Assembly as if the provisions of the applied State Act had been re-enacted in an Act passed by the Assembly and taking effect on the commencement of this Act.
(2)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), on and after the commencement of this Act, the applied State Act shall not be taken to be a continued State law within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1967.
Citation
4.  The applied State Act may be cited as the Crimes Act 1900.
References in other laws
5.  (1)  A reference in a law of the Territory to the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory shall, on and after the commencement of this Act, be read as a reference to the Crimes Act 1900.
(2)  Section 41 of the Interpretation Act 1967 applies in relation to the applied State Act as if the short title specified in section 4 was the short title of the applied State Act as originally passed.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 9 April 1992]

© Australian Capital Territory 1992