NORFOLK  ISLAND

 

 

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS (JURISDICTION) ACT 1923

 

[Consolidated as at 31 March 2002

on the authority of the Administrator

and in accordance with

the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980]

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 1. Short title

 2. Court of Petty Sessions

  

 

NORFOLK  ISLAND

 

 

Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923

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An Act to confer on the Magistrate’s Court, jurisdiction under the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881 of the United Kingdom

 

 1. This Act may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923.

 2. The jurisdiction under Part 1, of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881 of the United Kingdom (44 and 45, Vic C. 69) to hear a case and commit a fugitive to prison to await his return shall be exercised in Norfolk Island by the Court of Petty Sessions.

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The Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923 as shown in this consolidation comprises Act No. 2 of 1923 and amendments as indicated in the Tables below.

Enactment

Number and year

Date of commencement

Application saving or transitional provision

 

 

 

 

Fugitive Offenders Act 1923

2, 1923

6.4.23

 

 

 

 

 

Administration Act 1936

14, 1936

16.12.36

 

 

 

 

 

Ordinances Revision Act 1964

6, 1964

30.6.64

 

 

 

 

 

[reprinted as at 31 December 1964 incorporating above amendments]

 

 

 

 

Ordinances Revision Act 1979

13, 1979

this Act commenced on the same day as s. 2(2) of the Norfolk Island Act 1979 (Commonwealth)

 

 

 

 

ad = added or inserted

am = amended

rep = repealed

rs = repealed and substituted

Provisions affected

 How affected

1

am

2, 1963

2

am

14, 1936;  6, 1964;  13, 1979

 

 

 

 

 

 

© Norfolk Island Government 2002

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