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SUITORS' FUND ACT 1951 - NOTES

- As at 15 August 2005 - Act 3 of 1951

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   10 January 1975  
Reprint No 2   28 November 1978  
Reprint No 3   9 April 1981  
Reprint No 4   29 August 1988  
Reprint No 5   2 November 1992  
Reprint No 6   8 April 2003  

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Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted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

Suitors’ Fund Act 1951 No 3. Assented to 31.5.1951. Date of commencement, 1.11.1951, sec 1 (2) and GG No 182 of 26.10.1951, p 3080. This Act has been amended as follows:

1959 No 20 Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act 1959. Assented to 19.10.1959.
Date of commencement of sec 2, 1.11.1951, sec 1 (4).
1960 No 8 Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act 1960. Assented to 24.3.1960.
Date of commencement, 1.11.1951, sec 1 (3).
1965 No 33 Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965.
Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1), and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2).
1970 No 10 Legal Assistance and Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act 1970. Assented to 23.3.1970.
Date of commencement of sec 3 (1) (c) (ii) (iii), 1.11.1951, sec 3 (2); date of commencement of sec 3 (1) (e) (i) (ii) (v) (vi) (vii) (ix), 1.1.1966, sec 3 (4) and GG No 164 of 24.12.1965, p 4295; date of commencement of sec 3 (1) (e) (iii) (iv), 19.10.1959, sec 3 (6).
No 37 Legal Practitioners (Legal Aid) Act 1970. Assented to 18.8.1970.
Date of commencement, 25.1.1971, sec 1 (2) and GG No 161 of 18.12.1970, p 5036.
1979 No 84 Suitors’ Fund (Legal Services Commission) Amendment Act 1979. Assented to 16.5.1979.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 21.12.1979, sec 2 (2) and GG No 171 of 7.12.1979, p 6129.
1983 No 153 Miscellaneous Acts (Public Finance and Audit) Repeal and Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 29.12.1983.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 6.1.1984, sec 2 (2) and GG No 4 of 6.1.1984, p 19.
1985 No 64 Suitors’ Fund (Land and Environment Court) Amendment Act 1985. Assented to 15.5.1985.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 11.6.1985, sec 2 (2) and GG No 91 of 7.6.1985, p 2511.
No 158 Miscellaneous Acts (Special Deposits Account) Amendment Act 1985. Assented to 28.11.1985.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 20.6.1986, sec 2 (2) and GG No 97 of 20.6.1986, p 2796.
1986 No 16 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1986. Assented to 1.5.1986.
1987 No 48 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 32, 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
No 249 Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act 1987. Assented to 16.12.1987.
Date of commencement, 28 days after assent. Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1988 No 92. Assented to 19.12.1988. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 26 relating to the Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act 1987, assent, sec 2 (1).
1990 No 46 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990. Assented to 22.6.1990.
Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Suitors’ Fund Act 1951, 1.8.1990, Sch 1 and GG No 90 of 20.7.1990, p 6684.
1994 No 14 Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 1994. Assented to 10.5.1994.
Date of commencement, 1.7.1994, sec 2 and GG No 80 of 17.6.1994, p 2917.
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). Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1996 No 121. Assented to 3.12.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 2, assent, sec 2 (1).
No 121 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1996. Assented to 3.12.1996.
Date of commencement of Sch 4.52, 4 months after assent, sec 2 (4).
1997 No 141 Courts Legislation Further Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 17.12.1997.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.10, 2.2.1998, sec 2 and GG No 16 of 30.1.1998, p 432.
1998 No 172 Courts Legislation Further Amendment Act 1998. Assented to 14.12.1998.
Date of commencement of Sch 9, 1.2.1999, sec 2 and GG No 178 of 24.12.1998, p 9951.
2001 No 34 Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001. Assented to 28.6.2001.
Date of commencement of Schs 1.8 and 2.49, 15.7.2001, sec 2 (1) and Commonwealth Gazette No S 285 of 13.7.2001.
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.
2005 No 28 Civil Procedure Act 2005. Assented to 1.6.2005.
Date of commencement of Sch 5.46, 15.8.2005, sec 2 (1) and GG No 100 of 10.8.2005, p 4205.
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 22.11.1978, and published in GG No 166 of 24.11.1978, p 4857, declaring that:
(a) the Suitors’ Fund Act 1951 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 applies, and
(b) the Suitors’ Fund Act 1951, the words “of this Act” where secondly occurring in sec 3 (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 Decimal Currency Act 1965, the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996.

Sec 2 Am 1959 No 20, sec 2 (a); 1960 No 8, sec 2 (a); 1970 No 10, sec 3 (1) (a); 1979 No 84, Sch 1 (1); 1985 No 64, Sch 1 (1); 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (1); 1997 No 141, Sch 1.10 [1]; 2001 No 34, Sch 1.8.
Sec 3 Am 1959 No 20, sec 3 (a); 1970 No 10, sec 3 (1) (b); 1979 No 84, Sch 1 (2); 1983 No 153, Sch 1; 1985 No 158, Sch 1; 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (2); 1990 No 46, Sch 1; 1998 No 172, Sch 9 [1] [2]; 2005 No 28, Sch 5.46.
Sec 4 Am 1959 No 20, sec 2 (b); 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (3).
Sec 6 Subst 1959 No 20, sec 2 (c). Am 1960 No 8, sec 2 (b); 1970 No 10, sec 3 (1) (c); 1979 No 84, Sch 1 (3); 1985 No 64, Sch 1 (2); 1986 No 16, Sch 23; 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (4); 1996 No 121, Sch 4.52; 1997 No 141, Sch 1.10 [2]; 2001 No 34, Sch 2.49 [1].
Sec 6A Ins 1959 No 20, sec 3 (b). Am 1970 No 10, sec 3 (1) (d); 1970 No 37, sec 20; 1979 No 84, Sch 1 (4); 1986 No 16, Sch 23; 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (5); 1994 No 14, sec 4; 2001 No 34, Sch 2.49 [2]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.190.
Sec 6B Ins 1959 No 20, sec 3 (b). Am 1970 No 10, sec 3 (1) (e); 1979 No 84, Sch 1 (5); 1986 No 16, Sch 23; 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (6) (am 1988 No 92, Sch 26); 2001 No 34, Sch 2.49 [3].
Secs 6C, 6D Ins 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (7).
Sec 7 Am 1960 No 8, sec 2 (c); 1987 No 48, Sch 32.
Sec 8 Ins 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (8).
Sch 1 Ins 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (8). Am 1998 No 172, Sch 9 [3].
The whole Act Am 1997 No 141, Sch 1.10 [3] (“Secretary” and “Secretary’s” omitted wherever occurring, “Director-General” and “Director-General’s” inserted instead respectively).


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