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Acts Interpretation Amendment (Court Procedures) Act 2003

  • - C2004A01131
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Act No. 46 of 2003 as made
An Act to amend the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, and for related purposes
Administered by: Attorney-General's
Originating Bill: Acts Interpretation Amendment (Court Procedures) Bill 2003
Date of Assent 26 Jun 2003
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Acts Interpretation Amendment (Court Procedures) Act 2003

 

No. 46, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, and for related purposes

  

  

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 2

3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Acts Interpretation Act 1901                                                               3

 

 

 

Acts Interpretation Amendment (Court Procedures) Act 2003

No. 46, 2003

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2003]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Acts Interpretation Amendment (Court Procedures) Act 2003.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 7 July 2003.

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                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  

1  After section 27

Insert:

27A  Documents commencing proceedings

                   A reference in a provision of an Act to any one or more of the following in connection with court proceedings:

                     (a)  a summons;

                     (b)  an information;

                     (c)  a claim;

                     (d)  a complaint;

                     (e)  a declaration;

is taken to include a reference to any document through which proceedings may be instituted in a court.

Note:          An example of such a document is a court attendance notice under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 of New South Wales.

2  Application

The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to proceedings instituted on or after 7 July 2003.

(90/03)

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 5 June 2003

Senate on 18 June 2003]