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DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION ACT 1973 - NOTES



Compilation Information

Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973

Act No. 100 of 1973 as amended
This compilation was prepared on 21 February 2001
taking into account amendments up to Act No. 34 of 1997
The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra



DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION ACT 1973
Notes to the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973

Note 1

The Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 100, 1973 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Acts

Act


Number
and year


Date
of Assent


Date of commencement


Application, saving or transitional provisions


Death Penalty Act 1973


100, 1973


18 Sept 1973


18 Sept 1973



Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1997


34, 1997


17 Apr 1997


Schedule 5: Royal Assent (a)



(a) The Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 was amended by Schedule 5 only of the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1997, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted


Provision affected


How affected


S. 3


am. No. 34, 1997