LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996  (No 1 of 1996)

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Short title  
2.  Commencement  
3.  Abolition of estate  
4.  Certain common law misdemeanours abolished  
5.  Abolition of distress for rent  
6.  Repeal of Acts  
SCHEDULE 

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
 - LONG TITLE
An Act to reform the law of the Territory
by abolishing an estate, a right and certain common law misdemeanours and by
repealing certain laws 

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 1
 Short title
  1.  This Act may be cited as the Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 2
 Commencement
  2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 3
 Abolition of estate
  3.  The estate pur autre vie is abolished.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 4
 Certain common law misdemeanours abolished
  4.  The common law misdemeanours of criminal libel, blasphemous libel, seditious libel and obscene libel are abolished.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 5
 Abolition of distress for rent
  5.  The right to levy or make distress for rent is abolished.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SECT 6
 Repeal of Acts
  6.  The Acts and provisions specified in the Schedule are repealed.

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- SCHEDULE
     SCHEDULE     Section 6

REPEAL

     (1285)     13 Edw. 1 c. 22     (1575)     18 Eliz. 1 c. 5     (1623)     21 Jas. 1 c.
16, s. 6

Acts Revision Act 1937

Acts Revision Act 1938Acts Revision Act 1959Acts
Revision Act 1977Acts Revision Act 1978Acts Revision
(Administrative Arrangements) Act 1976Acts Revision (Administrative
Arrangements) Act 1977Acts Revision (Administrative Arrangements) Act
1978Acts Revision (Age of Majority) Act 1974Acts Revision
(Decimal Currency) Act 1966Acts Revision (Decimal Currency) Act
1967Acts Revision (Health Commission) Act 1975Acts
Revision (Metric Conversion) Act 1977Acts Revision (Penalties) Act
1979Acts Revision (Remuneration) Act 1976Ancient Lights
Declaratory Act 1904 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the
TerritoryCrown Lands Act 1884 of the State of New South Wales in its
application in the TerritoryEgg Industry Act 1975Egg Industry
(Amendment) Act 1979Egg Industry (Amendment) Act
1982Imperial Acts (Substituted Provisions) Act 1986, Schedule 2,
Parts 1, 2, 9, 13, 16 and 20Landlord and Tenant Act 1949, section
40Leases (Wreck Bay Aboriginal Housing Company Limited) Act
1977Police Offences Act 1930Police Offences Act
1934Police Offences Act 1937Police Offences Act
1939Police Offences Act (No. 2) 1939Police Offences Act
1948Police Offences Act 1953Police Offences Act
1961Police Offences Act 1967Police Offences Act
1970Police Offences Act 1975Police Offences (Amendment)
Act 1980Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1983Police
Offences (Amendment) Act 1984Police Offences (Amendment) Act
1989Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1991Real Property
(Conversion of Titles) Act 1967Returned Servicemen's Badges Act
1960Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1938Rural Workers
Accommodation Act 1942Rural Workers Accommodation Act
1951Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1962Seat of Government
(Designation) Act 1938Walter Oswald Watt Memorial Fund Act
1938Walter Oswald Watt Memorial Fund Act 1939

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 7 December
1995]

(c)  Australian Capital Territory
2003

LAW REFORM (ABOLITIONS AND REPEALS) ACT 1996
- NOTES

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

No. 1 of 1996

    

    [Notified in ACT Gazette S31: 4 March 1996]