Removal of Prisoners (Territories)

No. 9 of 1968

An Act to amend sections 8a and 10a of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923-1962.

[Assented to 8 May 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1968.

(2.) The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923-1962 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923-1968.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Licences for prisoners to be at large.

3. Section 8a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (14.) the words “the Minister of State for Territories” and inserting in their stead the words “the Minister of State for External Territories”.

Release of criminal lunatics.

4. Section 10a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (5.) the words “the Minister of State for Territories” and inserting in their stead the words “the Minister of State for External Territories”.