CRIMES.

No. 10 of 1955.

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1914–1950, and to repeal certain provisions of the War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920–1934.

[Assented to 31st May, 1955.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Crimes Act 1955.

(2.) The Crimes Act 1914–1950 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Crimes Act 1914–1955.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

3. Section fifty-one of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting the definition of “coin” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“ ‘coin’ includes the coin of a foreign country as well as the coin of a part of the Queen’s dominions;”; and

(b) by omitting the definition of “current” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“ ‘current’, in relation to coin, means coin of any of the kinds or denominations of coin which are or have been coined in a mint in any part of the Queen’s dominions or are lawfully current in any part of the Queen’s dominions;”.

4. After section sixty-two of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part IV.:—

Defacing current gold coin.

“62a. A person shall not, without the consent of the Treasurer, deface or destroy, by melting or otherwise, a current gold coin.

Penalty: One hundred pounds or imprisonment for one year.”.

5. After section ninety of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Destroying, &c, posters, &c., relating to Commonwealth loans.

“90a. A person shall not, without lawful authority, destroy, injure, disfigure or remove a poster, advertisement or notice relating to a Commonwealth loan.

Penalty: One hundred pounds or imprisonment for one year.”.

Repeal of certain provisions of War Precautions Act Repeal Act.

6.—(1.) Section eighteen of the War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920–1934 and the heading to that section, and sections twenty and twenty-one of that Act, are repealed.

(2.) The War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920–1934, as amended by this section, may be cited as the War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920–1955.