The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Amendment Act 1898 with the full title “An Act to amend ‘The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Act 1873′”(Act no. 62 Vict. No.46) was repealed and replaced in January 1920 and replaced with The Maintenance Act 1919 (Act no.10 Geo. V No.62).
The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Amendment Act 1907, with the full title “An Act to further amend ‘The Deserted Wives and Children Maintenance Act 1873′”(Act no.7 Edw. VII No.22) provides guidelines on the expenses of bringing a defendant to face court over the abandonment of a wife and or children. This amendment was repealed…
The Contagious Diseases Amendment Act 1881 also known by the full title ‘An Act to continue and amend “The Contagious Diseases Acts, 1879″‘ (Act no.45 Vict. No.23) provided for women confined to a contagious diseases hospital who refused to work to be placed in solitary confinement for seven days or prison for one month. The…
The Contagious Diseases Amendment Act 1879 also known by its full title ‘An Act to amend “The Contagious Diseases Act 1879″‘(Act no. 43 Vict. No. 5) provided for contagious diseases hospitals to be built. This had been omitted from the previous Contagious Diseases Act (Act no.42 Vict. No.5) passed earlier in 1879. ‘Contagious’ was a…
The Contagious Diseases Act 1882 also known by the full title ‘An Act to Further Amend “The Contagious Diseases Act 1879″‘ (Act no. 46 Vict. No.41) was a minor amendment to the previous contagious diseases legislation. Contagious diseases was a ‘polite’ word for sexually transmitted diseases, especially syphilis.
The 1905 Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children’s Amendment Act 1905 also known by its full title “An Act to amend ‘The Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children Act 1896′”(Act no.5 Edw. VII No.39) set up the first Tasmanian court for children. The act stipulated that their cases be heard away from the police office,…
The Mental Health Act 1963 with the full title ‘An Act to repeal the Mental Hospitals Act 1858, the Mental Deficiency Act 1920, and certain other enactments relating to persons suffering from mental disorder, and to make fresh provision with respect to the treatment and care of persons so suffering, and with respect to their…
The Child Welfare Act 1960 with the full title “An Act to consolidate and amend certain enactments relating to children and other persons who have not attained the age of twenty-one years” (Act no.48/1960) set out the provisions by which a child who was 16 years or younger could be made a ward of the…
The Children’s Charter Amendment Act 1923 made some minor amendments to the sections of the Children of the State Act 1918 that provided for children’s courts. The full title of this act was “An Act to amend ‘The Children’s Charter’” (Act no. 13 Geo. V no.21) and it was repealed in 1936 by The Infants…
The Adoption (Review) Amendment Act 2016 (no 64 of 2016) amended the Adoption Act 1988. It was passed in December 2016, following an independent review of the Adoption Act, conducted in 2014-15. This act made significant changes to adoption law in South Australia. The main amendments that were passed in the Adoption (Review) Amendment Act…
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