AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Crimes Amendment Act 2000 (No 2)
No 56 of 2000

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 40: 5 October 2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Crimes Amendment Act 2000 (No 2).
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
Note 1 	The provisions of an Act providing for its name and commencement automatically commence on the date of notification of the Act (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10B).
Note 2 	A single day or time may be fixed, or different days or times may be fixed for different provisions (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10C (1)).
Note 3 	If a provision has not commenced within 6 months beginning on the date of notification of the Act, it automatically commences on the first day after that period (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10E (2)).
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Crimes Act 1900.
4 	Insertion
	After section 496 the following section is inserted:
“497 	Retail supplier of knives to display sign
“(1) 	A person who sells knives by retail must ensure that a sign complying with subsections (2), (3) and (4) is clearly visible to a person at the place, or each place, where such a sale is made.
Maximum penalty:  5 penalty units.
“(2) 	The sign must display at least the following words in the following sequence:
‘It is an offence to sell a knife to a person under the age of 16.
Proof of age may be required.’.
“(3) 	The lettering of the words stated in subsection (2) must be at least 8 mm in height.
“(4) 	The dimensions of the sign must not be less than 210 mm x 145 mm.
“(5)	Subsection (1) does not apply to a person, or a knife, of a kind specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations.”.

Endnotes
Act amended
1	Republished as in force on 10 November 1999 (Republication No 6).  See also Acts 1999 Nos 71, 79 and 91; 2000 No 3.

Penalty units
2	Section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 1 March 2000]

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