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HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT 1957 - NOTES

- As at 6 July 2009 - Act 19 of 1957

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   7 June 1979  
Reprint No 2   8 September 1988  
Reprint No 3   21 August 2001  

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Habitual Criminals Act 1957 No 19. Assented to 29.4.1957. Date of commencement, 1.6.1957, sec 1 (2) and GG No 59 of 24.5.1957, p 1609. This Act has been amended as follows:

1958 No 25 Justices (Amendment) Act 1958. Assented to 31.10.1958.
Date of commencement of sec 4, 1.6.1957, sec 4 (2).
1972 No 48 Reprints Act 1972. Assented to 9.10.1972.
1978 No 155 Prisons (Amendment) Act 1978. Assented to 29.12.1978.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, 19.3.1979, sec 2 (2) and GG No 39 of 16.3.1979, p 1171.
1986 No 212 Miscellaneous Acts (Public Prosecutions) Amendment Act 1986. Assented to 23.12.1986.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 13.7.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 117 of 10.7.1987, p 3860.
1987 No 209 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1987. Assented to 9.12.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 44 (except as provided by sec 2 (6)), assent, sec 2 (1).
1988 No 131 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 3) 1988. Assented to 30.12.1988.
Date of commencement of Sch 29, except as provided by sec 2 (4), assent, sec 2 (1).
1996 No 30 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996. Assented to 21.6.1996.
Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1999 No 85 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
No 94 Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sentencing) Act 1999. Assented to 8.12.1999.
Date of commencement of Sch 4.28, 3.4.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 42 of 31.3.2000, p 2487; date of commencement of Sch 4.113, 1.1.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12184.
2001 No 56 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001. Assented to 17.7.2001.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.20, assent, sec 2 (2).
No 121 Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978.
2007 No 94 Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 31.5.1979, and published in GG No 73 of 1.6.1979, p 2703, declaring that:
(a) the Habitual Criminals Act 1957 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 applies, and
(b) the Habitual Criminals Act 1957, the words “of this Act” where thirdly occurring in sec 2 (2) (b) and the words “of this Act” where secondly occurring in sec 8 (1) excepted, is an enactment to which sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 applies.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996.

Sec 2 Am 1987 No 209, Sch 44; 1988 No 131, Sch 29; 1999 No 94, Sch 4.28.
Sec 3 Am 1958 No 25, sec 4 (1); 1988 No 131, Sch 29; 1999 No 94, Sch 4.113.
Sec 4 Am 1986 No 212, Sch 1; 1988 No 131, Sch 29.
Sec 5 Am 1978 No 155, Sch 4; 1988 No 131, Sch 29; 2001 No 56, Sch 2.20.
Sec 7 Am 1988 No 131, Sch 29.
Sec 8 Am 1986 No 212, Sch 1; 1988 No 131, Sch 29; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.122 [1]-[4]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.
Sec 10 Am 1988 No 131, Sch 29.
Sec 11 Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
Sec 12 Am 1999 No 85, Sch 4.