AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

CRIMES ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 4 of 1968

	The purpose of this Ordinance is to amend the Crimes Act 1900 (N.S.W.) and the Piracy Punishment Act 1902 (N.S.W.) in their application to the Australian Capital Territory, in order to omit the offence of treason and to abolish the death penalty and substitute life imprisonment for certain offences other than for murder.