Australian Capital Territory
Education Amendment Act 2001
No 51 of 2001

An Act to amend the Education Act 1937 

    
    
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 28: 12 July 2001]
The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1	Name of Act
This Act is the Education Amendment Act 2001.
2	Act amended
This Act amends the Education Act 1937.
3	Title
after
education
insert
and related matters
4	New section 36A
insert
36A	Offences on school premises
	(1)	A person must not, without reasonable excuse, trespass on school premises.
Maximum penalty:  5 penalty units.
	(2)	A person must not, without reasonable excuse—
	(a)	behave in an offensive or disorderly way on school premises; or
	(b)	fail to leave school premises when directed to do so by a police officer or an authorised person.
Maximum penalty:  10 penalty units.
	(3)	In this section:
authorised person, for a school, means—
	(a)	the person (however described) responsible for the conduct of the school (the principal); or
	(b)	a person authorised by the principal to give directions mentioned in subsection (2).
school means a primary school, high school or secondary college—
	(a)	conducted on behalf of the Territory; or
	(b)	registered or provisionally registered under this Act.
school premises means land (including any building or structure on the land) occupied by a school.

Endnotes
Act amended
1	Republished as in force on 31 July 1999 (Republication No 3).  See also Acts 1999 Nos 64 and 66.
Penalty units
2	The Interpretation Act 1967, s 33AA deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 28 March 2001]

 

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