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Judiciary Act 1914

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  • - C1914A00011
  • No longer in force
Act No. 11 of 1914 as made
An Act to amend the Judiciary Act 1903-1912.
Date of Assent 29 Oct 1914
Date of repeal 24 Jun 2014
Repealed by Amending Acts 1901 to 1969 Repeal Act 2014

JUDICIARY.

 

No. 11 of 1914.

An Act to amend the Judiciary Act 1903–1912.

[Assented to 29th October, 1914.]

BE it enacted by the King’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 Judiciary Act 1914.

(2.)  The Judiciary Act 1903–1912, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Judiciary Act 1903–1914.

Amendment of s. 30.

2.  Section(a) thirty of the Judiciary Act 1903–1912 is amended by omitting the words “in all matters arising under the Constitution or involving its interpretation”, and inserting in their stead the words “in all matters—

(a) arising under the Constitution or involving its interpretation, and

(b) of Admiralty or maritime jurisdiction.”

3.  After section thirty of the Judiciary Act 1903–1912 the following section is inserted:—

High Court a Colonial Court of Admiralty.

“30a.  The High Court is hereby declared to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty within the meaning of the Imperial Act known as the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890.”

 

(a) See Act No. 4, 1915, s. 2 (infra, p. 97).