STATUTE LAW REVISION.
No. 45 of 1934.
An Act to revise the Statute Law of the Commonwealth by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary, to make any Amendments in that Law which are rendered necessary or desirable by any such repeal, and for other purposes.
[Assented to 6th August, 1934.]
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 citations.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act 1934.
(2.) Each Act specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act may, as amended by this Act, be cited in the manner specified in the second column of that Schedule opposite the reference to that Act in the first column.
Repeal and amendment of Acts.
2.—(1.) The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed:
Provided that any act or thing, which by any Act specified in Part III. of that Schedule was made or deemed lawful valid or effectual, shall, to the extent to which it was so made or deemed lawful, valid or effectual, continue to be or to be deemed lawful valid or effectual.
(2.) So much of the Acts specified in the Third Schedule to this Act as has not been repealed by any other Act is hereby repealed.
(3.) The Acts specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to this Act are hereby amended as respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule.
Repeal of Income Tax Acts.
3. The Acts set forth in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are repealed: Provided that where the income tax imposed on income by any Act specified in that Schedule has not been paid, the rate of tax imposed by that Act shall continue to apply to that income as if this section had not been enacted.
Amendment of Committee of Public Accounts Acts.
4.—(1.) Section nine of and the Schedule to the Committee of Public Accounts Act 1920 are repealed.
(2.) The Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913–1920 is amended by adding at the end thereof the Schedule set forth in the Sixth Schedule to this Act.
Repeal of Trading with the Enemy Act 1914–1921.
5.—(1.) The following Acts are repealed:—
The Trading with the Enemy Act 1914 (No. 9 of 1914).
The Trading with the Enemy Act (No. 2) 1914 (No. 17 of 1914).
The Trading with the Enemy Act 1916 (No. 20 of 1916).
The Trading with the Enemy Act 1921 (No. 23 of 1921):
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the continuation of the office of Public Trustee constituted under those Acts or the appointment of any person to that office and that any person for the time being holding the office of Public Trustee shall have the same powers, discretions, rights and duties as if this section had not been enacted:
Provided further that the Public Trustee Enabling Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1921, No. 10) shall continue in force as if this section had not been enacted.
Repeal of Defence Retirement Act 1922.
6. The Defence Retirement Act 1922 is hereby repealed:
Provided that a person to whom compensation has been paid in pursuance of that Act shall not be appointed to any position under the Commonwealth until he has, if so required by the authority making the appointment, paid into the Treasury an amount equal to the compensation so paid to him, or such proportionate amount as that authority determines.
Repeal at Moratorium Act 1919.
7. The Moratorium Act 1919 is repealed:
Provided that where under a mortgage or agreement to which the War Precautions (Active Service Moratorium) Regulations 1916 applied the principal or purchase-money was to be repaid or paid by instalments and the mortgagor or purchaser availed himself of the right conferred by those Regulations to postpone the payment of any of those instalments, then, notwithstanding the repeal of the Moratorium Act 1919, the times when any subsequent instalments respectively fall due shall continue to be postponed for a period equal to the period of postponement effected by those Regulations.
Application of Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1932.
8. Nothing in the provisoes to sections two, three, five, six and seven of this Act shall be construed as limiting the application of section eight of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1932.
THE SCHEDULES.
S.1 (2.).
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FIRST SCHEDULE.
Citation of Acts.
First Column. | Second Column. |
Acts Interpretation Act 1904–1932. | Acts Interpretation Act 1904–1934. |
Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1920–1929. | Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1920–1934. |
Audit Act 1901–1926. | Audit Act 1901–1934. |
Canned Fruits Export Control Act 1926–1933. | Canned Fruits Export Control Act 1926–1934. |
Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913–1920. | Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913–1934. |
Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1930. | Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1934. |
Customs Act 1901–1930 (as amended by the Customs Act 1934) | Customs Act 1901–1934. |
Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924. | Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924–1934. |
Defence Act 1903–1932. | Defence Act 1903–1934. |
Designs Act 1906–1933 (as amended by the Designs Act 1934) | Designs Act 1906–1934. |
Dried Fruits Export Control Act 1924–1930. | Dried Fruits Export Control Act 1924–1934. |
Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925. | Export Guarantee Act 1924–1934. |
Excise Procedure Act 1907. | Bounties Procedure Act 1907–1934. |
Extradition Act 1903–1933. | Extradition Act 1903–1934. |
Flax and Linseed Bounties Act 1930–1931. | Flax and Linseed Bounties Act 1930–1934. |
Gold Bounty Act 1930–1931. | Gold Bounty Act 1930–1934. |
Income Tax Collection Act 1923–1924. | Income Tax Collection Act 1923–1934. |
Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922–1933. | Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922–1934. |
Judiciary Act 1903–1933. | Judiciary Act 1903–1934. |
Lands Acquisition Act 1906–1932. | Lands Acquisition Act 1906–1934. |
Naval Defence Act 1910–1918. | Naval Defence Act 1910–1934. |
Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901–1906. | Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901–1934. |
Papua Act 1905–1924. | Papua Act 1905–1934. |
Patents Act 1903–1933. | Patents Act 1903–1934. |
Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1923. | Post and Telegraph Act 1901–1934. |