Crimes Act 1973

No. 33 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the Crimes Act 1914–1966 in relation to the Deportation of Persons from Australia.

[Assented to 27 May 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Crimes Act 1973.

(2) The Crimes Act 1914–1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Crimes Act 1914–1973.

Commencement.

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

Parts.

3. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the figures “91” and substituting the figures “90”.

Advocating or inciting to crime.

4. Section 30c of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words and in addition (if he was not born in Australia) to deportation by order of the Attorney-General as provided in this Act”,

Industrial disturbances, lock-outs and strikes.

5. Section 30j of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the words “, and in addition (if he was not born in Australia) to deportation by order of the Attorney-General as provided by this Act”.

Repeal.

6. Sections 30l, 30m, 30n, 30p, 30q and 91 of the Principal Act are repealed.

Formal amendments.

7. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Section 7

FORMAL AMENDMENTS

1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting any number expressed in words that is used, whether with or without the addition, of a letter or letters, to identify a section of that Act or of another Act and substituting that number expressed in figures:—

Sections 12a(4), 19a(1) (definition of “the prescribed period”), (2) and (11), 20a(4) and (5), 21b(b), 24ab(1) (definition of “act of sabotage”), 24f(2)(b) and (c), 30a(1)(b), 30aa(3), 30fb(1)(a) and (2) (definition of “seditious matter”), 79(5) and 85e(2).

2. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “of this Act”, “of this section”, “of this sub-section” and “of this paragraph” (wherever occurring):—

Sections 19a(1) (definitions of “prescribed authority” and “the prescribed period”), (2)(b), (10), (11) and (12), 20a(4), 20b(4), (6), (7), (8) and (10), 21a(3), 21b(b), 24(3), 24ab(1) (definition of “act of sabotage”), 24f(2)(b) and (c), 30a(1)(b), 30aa(3), 30fb(1)(a) and (2) (definition of “seditious matter”), 79(2)(a), (3), (6), (7) and (10), 80(c) and (d), 81(2) and 89(3).

3. The Principal Act is further amended as set out its the following table:—