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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (VALIDATION) BILL 73 OF 2002

                                       TASMANIA


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                   JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (VALIDATION)
                                BILL 2002

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                                      CONTENTS
              1.     Short title
              2.     Commencement
              3.     Validation
              4.     Administration of Act




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             JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (VALIDATION)
                          BILL 2002

              (Brought in by the Minister for Justice and Industrial
                Relations, the Honourable Judith Louise Jackson)

                                   A BILL FOR

            An Act to validate acts done or omitted by certain
            justices of the peace



            Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania,
            by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
            Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled,
            as follows:


            Short title

            1. This Act may be cited as the Justices of the Peace
            (Validation) Act 2002.



            Commencement

            2. This Act commences on the day on which this Act
            receives the Royal Assent.


            Validation

            3. (1) A person ­

                 (a)      appointed as a justice of the peace under
                          section 4 of the Justices Act 1959; and



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             (b)   purporting to have taken the judicial oath in
                   accordance with the Promissory Oaths Act
                   1869 on or after 5 December 2001 ­

       is taken to have taken the judicial oath in accordance with
       the Promissory Oaths Act 1869.

              (2) Any act or thing done or omitted by a justice of
       the peace referred to in subsection (1) in the performance
       or exercise or purported performance or exercise of the
       duties, functions, obligations, rights or powers of the office
       of a justice of the peace is taken to have been validly done
       or omitted.



       Administration of Act

       4. Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order
       under section 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act
       1990 ­

             (a)   the administration of this Act is assigned to
                   the Minister for Justice and Industrial
                   Relations; and

             (b)   the department responsible to the Minister for
                   Justice and Industrial Relations in relation to
                   the administration of this Act is the
                   Department of Justice and Industrial
                   Relations.




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