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Nauru Sessional Legislation |
THE ISLAND OF NAURU
No. 1 of 1955
AN ORDINANCE
To amend the Criminal Code of Queensland in its application to the Island of Nauru.
BE it ordained by the Administrator of the Island of Nauru in pursuance of the powers conferred by Article 1 of the Agreement dated the second day of July, 1919, between the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand as follows:-
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Code Amendment Ordinance 1955.
Definition
2. In this Ordinance, "the Criminal Code" means the First Schedule to The Criminal Code Act, 1899 of the State of Queensland as in force in the Island of Nauru.
Amendment of the Criminal Code
3. - (1.) The sections of the Criminal Code specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Ordinance are amended as respectively specified in the second column of the Schedule.
(2) Sections six hundred and fifty-five and six hundred and sixty-six of the Criminal Code are repealed.
THE SCHEDULE.
Section 3(1.)
| Sections | Amendments |
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| 18 | (a) Omit "Whipping," (b) Omit "The punishment of whipping cannot be inflicted upon a female." |
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| 19 | Omit from paragraph (5.) "or of whipping" |
| 212 | (a) Omit ", with or without whipping" (wherever occurring), (b) Omit ", in addition to the sentence of whipping, or without such sentence," |
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| 213 | Omit ",with or without whipping" (whenever occurring) |
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| 214 | Omit ",with or without whipping" |
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| 216 | Omit ", with or without whipping" |
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| 315 | Omit ", with or without whipping, which may be inflicted once, twice or thrice". |
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| 671 | Omit sub-section (2.) |
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| 678 | (a) Insert, at the end of proviso (a) to sub-section (1.), "and" |
| | (b) Omit from proviso (b) to that sub-section "and" |
| | (c) Omit proviso (c) to that sub-section. |
Dated this fourth day of April, 1955.
R. S. LEYDIN,
Administrator of the Island of Nauru.
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