AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 
(No. 2) 1996
No. 37 of 1996
	
An Act to amend the Domestic Violence Act 1986
	[Notified in ACT Gazette S160: 10 July 1996]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1996.
Commencement
2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Principal Act
3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Domestic Violence Act 1986.1
Offence
4.  Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “not exceeding 6 months, or both” and substituting—
“not exceeding—
	(a)	in the case of a first offence—2 years; or
	(b)	in any other case—5 years;
or by both fine and imprisonment”.
	
NOTE
Principal Act
1.	Reprinted as at 31 January 1995.  See also Act No. 46, 1995; No. 3, 1996.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 27 March 1996]

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