AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Children and Young People Amendment 
Act 2000
No 11 of 2000
	
An Act to amend the Children and Young People Act 1999 
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 14:  6 April  2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1	Name of Act
	This Act is the Children and Young People Amendment Act 2000.
2	Commencement
(1)	Section 1 and this section commence on the day this Act is notified in the Gazette. 
(2)	The remaining provisions commence on the day Chapter 2 of the Children and Young People Act 1999 commences.
3	Act amended
	This Act amends the Children and Young People Act 1999.
4	Age of criminal responsibility
	Section 71 is amended by omitting from subsections (1) and (2) “8” and substituting “10”.
5	Power to apprehend under-age children
	Section 72 is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “8” and substituting “10”.
	
Endnote 
Act amended
1	Act 1999 No 63 (not republished).  
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 16 February 2000]

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