Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 2001 (Cth)

Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 2001

Act No. 22 of 2001 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 19 July 2002

[This Act was amended by Act No. 63 of 2002]

Amendment from Act No. 63 of 2002

[Schedule 2 (item 6) amended item 6 of Schedule 1 Schedule 2 (item 6) commenced immediately after 20 June 2001]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Crimes Act 1914

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914, and for other purposes

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 2001.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1, 2 and 3, items 2 and 3 of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), Schedule 1 (other than items 2 and 3) commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(3) If Schedule 1 (other than items 2 and 3) does not commence under subsection (2) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

(4) Item 78 of Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced immediately before item 77 of that Schedule. Item 79 of Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced immediately before item 81 of that Schedule.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Crimes Act 1914