Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Crimes Act 1914 3
Crimes Amendment (Fine Enforcement) Act 1999
No. 123, 1999
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914, and for related purposes
[Assented to 13 October 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment (Fine Enforcement) Act 1999.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Crimes Act 1914
1 Paragraph 15A(1AA)(a)
Omit “magistrate of the State or Territory sitting as a court”, substitute “court of summary jurisdiction of the State or Territory”.
2 Paragraph 15A(1AA)(b)
Omit “magistrate”, substitute “court”.
3 Subsection 15A(1AC)
Omit “magistrate”, substitute “court of summary jurisdiction”.
4 After subsection 15A(1AC)
Insert:
(1ACA) The following provisions do not apply in relation to subsections (1AA) and (1AC):
(a) paragraph 26(d) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901;
(b) paragraph 39(2)(d) of the Judiciary Act 1903.
Note: This subsection lets an officer of a State or Territory court of summary jurisdiction make an order under this section imposing a penalty for failure to pay a fine for a Commonwealth offence if the law of the State or Territory allows the officer to exercise the court’s powers.
5 Application
The amendments of section 15A of the Crimes Act 1914 made by this Act apply in relation to a fine regardless of whether it was imposed before, on or after the commencement of this Act.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 30 June 1999
Senate on 26 August 1999]