Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

FUGITIVE OFFENDERS (JURISDICTION) ACT 1923

[Consolidated as at 31 March 2002 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980] ________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Court of Petty Sessions

NORFOLK ISLAND

Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act to confer on the Magistrate's Court, jurisdiction under the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881 of the United Kingdom

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923.

Court of Petty Sessions to have jurisdiction

2. The jurisdiction under Part 1, of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881 of the United Kingdom (44 and 45, Vic C. 69) to hear a case and commit a fugitive to prison to await his return shall be exercised in Norfolk Island by the Court of Petty Sessions. _______________________________________________________________________

NOTES The Fugitive Offenders (Jurisdiction) Act 1923 as shown in this consolidation comprises Act No. 2 of 1923 and amendments as indicated in the Tables below. Enactment Number and year Date of commencement Application saving or transitional provision

Fugitive Offenders Act 1923 2, 1923 6.4.23

Administration Act 1936 14, 1936 16.12.36

Ordinances Revision Act 1964 6, 1964 30.6.64

[reprinted as at 31 December 1964 incorporating above amendments]

Ordinances Revision Act 1979 13, 1979 this Act commenced on the same day as s. 2(2) of the Norfolk Island Act 1979 (Commonwealth)