AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Court of Petty Sessions (Amendment) Ordinance 1984
No. 9 of 1984
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 4 April 1984.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
GARETH EVANS
Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Court of Petty Sessions (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.1
2.  After Division 2 of Part VI of the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 19302 the following Division is inserted:
“Division 2A—Costs”
Costs where committal proceedings discontinued
“97.  Where—
	(a)	in proceedings under this Part, the Court is of the opinion that the evidence for the prosecution is not sufficient to warrant the defendant being committed for trial for any indictable offence; or
	(b)	proceedings under this Part are discontinued for any other reason,
the Court may order that the informant shall pay to the defendant such costs as the Court thinks just.”.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 April 1984.
2.	No. 21, 1930 as amended by No. 21, 1932; No. 17, 1934; No. 13, 1936; Nos. 5 and 28, 1937; Nos. 25 and 35, 1938; Nos. 20 and 22, 1940; No. 13, 1949; Nos. 7 and 12, 1951; No. 14, 1953; No. 12, 1958; No. 2, 1961; No. 2, 1966; No. 1, 1967; No. 25, 1968; No. 12, 1969; No. 15, 1970; No. 37, 1972; No. 48, 1973; Nos. 14 and 47, 1974; No. 42, 1976; Nos. 4, 34, 56 and 61, 1977; No. 46, 1978; Nos. 33 and 41, 1979; Nos. 4 and 10, 1980; Nos. 2 and 3, 1982.