EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENT OF COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS REGULATIONS

No. 7 of 1960

	The object of these amending regulations is to substitute for the scale of fees set out in the Second Schedule of the Court of Petty Sessions Regulations a new scale of fees.
	The new scale of fees is in line with those payable in New South Wales.
	The new fees will operate from 1 September, 1960.  This is the first time Court of Petty Sessions fees have been increased in the Australian Capital Territory since 1953.