AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 25 of 1968

	The purpose of this Ordinance is to amend the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance 1930‑1967 to provide –

(a)	for the investment of moneys recovered by an infant or person of unsound mind;

(b)	for the simplification of the procedure governing the oral examination of judgement debtors and the satisfaction of judgment debts;

(c)	for a time limit for the service of a notice of appeal on the Clerk of Petty Sessions from a decision of the Court of Petty Sessions;

(d)	for minor changes consequential upon the introduction of the Maintenance Ordinance 1968.