AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1999
No. 71 of 1999
	
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 50:  15 December 1999]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1999.
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Crimes Act 1900.
4 	Insertion
	After section 406 the following section is inserted:
“407 	Abolition of presumption of marital coercion
	Any presumption of law that an offence committed by a wife in the presence of her husband is committed under the coercion of the husband is abolished.”.
	
Endnote
Act amended
1	Republished as in force on 28 February 1999.  See also Acts 1999 Nos 32 and 50.

 [Presentation speech made in Assembly on 14 October 1999]

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