Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

SUPREME COURT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993 (NO 59 OF 1993)

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 1993.  
   2.      This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Supreme Court Act 1933.1  
   4.      Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definitions:“ ‘criminal proceedings' means proceedings in the Court for the prosecution of a person on indictment; ‘related summary offence', in relation to an indictable offence, means an offence punishable on summary conviction that arises from substantially the same circumstances as those from which the indictable offence has arisen;”.  
   5.      The heading to Part VII of the Principal Act is omitted and the following heading substituted:  

   PART VII--TRIAL ON INDICTMENT”.

   6.      After section 68 of the Principal Act the following sections, Part and Part heading are inserted:  

   PART VIII--SUMMARY OFFENCES RELATED TO INDICTABLE OFFENCES

   PART IX--MISCELLANEOUS”. TRANSITIONAL

   7.      Sections 68A, 68B and 68C and Part VIII of the Principal Act as amended by this Act extend to proceedings commenced, but not concluded, before the commencement of this Act.