LAWS OF QEENSLAND

THE STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT OF 1908
(8 Edw. VII. No.18, 1908)
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An Act for the Revision of the Statute Law.

[ASENTED TO 23RD DECEMBER, 1908.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and concern of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as “The Statute Law Revision Act of 1908.”

Repeal Schedule I.

2. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act are repealed to the extend therein expressed:

Provided that -

(i.) The repeal by this Act of any enactment or Schedule shall not affect any enactment in which such enactment or Schedule has been applied, incorporated, or referred to;

(ii.) When an enactment hereby repealed is a repealing enactment contained in an Act which re-enacts with or without modification the provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions repealed by such repealing enactment shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted;

(iii.) This Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect, or consequences of anything already done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation, or liability already acquired, accrued, or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim, or demand, or any indemnity, or the proof of any past act or thing;

(iv.) This Act shall not affect any principle or rule of law or equity or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, or the general or public nature of any Act, or any existing usage, franchise, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allowance, emolument, or benefit, or any prospective right, not withstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised, or derived by, in, or from any enactment hereby repealed;

(v.) This Act shall not revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, duty, fee, payment, franchise, liberty, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure, form of punishment, or other matter or thing not now existing or in force.

Reprinting of amendments.

3. Where an enactment in any Act amends any prior Act -

(a) Merely by the omission of words; or

(b) Merely by the addition of words; or

(c) By the omission of words and the insertion of other words, whether in lieu of the omitted words or not, or by the omission of the whole of an enactment, with or without the substitution of another enactment therefor,

in every such case it shall be sufficient in any future edition of the Statutes of Queensland to reprint such prior Act as amended by the subsequent enactment, and it shall not be necessary to reprint the subsequent enactment by which such amendment is made.

Schedule II.

The foregoing provision shall, without limiting its operation with respect to other Acts now in force or hereafter to be passed, apply to the Acts and groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act.

4 and 5.*
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[Section 2.]

SCHEDULE I. †

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[Section 3.]	SCHEDULE II.	

Subject Matter.	Names of Acts.
	
Aboriginals ………….	The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Acts, 1897 to 1901
	
Acts………………….	The Acts Shortening Acts
	
Agriculture Bank……..	The Agriculture Bank Acts, 1901 to 1905
	
Audit………………….	The Audit Acts, 1874 to 1906
	
Banks………………….	The Government Savings Bank Stock Acts, 1894 to 1897	
	Government Savings Bank Act of 1864	
	The Savings Bank Amending Act 1882	
	The Government Savings Bank Acts Amendment Act of 1896	
	The Bank Holidays Acts, 1904 - 1906
	
Bills of Sale…………...	The Bills of Sale Acts, 1891 to 1896
	
Boundaries…………….	The Central and Northern Districts Boundaries Act of 1900
	
Brands…………………	The Brands Acts
	
Bridges………………...	The Victoria Bridge Act of 1897	
	The Victoria Bridge Act Amendment Act of 1898
	
Companies…………….	The Queensland Trustees, Limited, Acts, 1888 and 1892	
	The Union Trustee Company of Australia, Limited, Acts, 1890 and 1892
	
Criminal Law…………..	The Criminal Code Act, 1899	
	The Criminal Code Correction of Errors Act of 1900
	
‡ Sic in Gazette.
Dairy Produce………….	
The Dairy Produce Act, ‡ 1904 to 1905
	
District Courts…………..	The District Courts Act, 1891	
	The District Courts Act,1897
	
Education………………..	The State Education Acts, 1875 to 1900
	
Elections ………………...	The Elections Acts, 1885 to 1908
	
Exchange ………………..	The Bills of Exchange Acts, 1884 to 1905 §
	
Factories and Shops ……..	The Factories and Shops Act, 1900 to 1908
	
Fencing ………………….	The Fencing Act  of 1861	
	The Fencing Act of 1861 Extension Act of 1897
	
Fire Brigades ……………	The Fire Brigades Acts, 1881 to 1902	

Fisheries …………………	
The Pearl-shell and Beche-de-Mer Fishery Acts,1881 to1898	

Gaming ………………….	
The Totalisator Tax Act, 1892	
	The Totalisator Tax Amendment Act of 1902
	
Harbour Boards …………	The Harbour Boards Acts, 1892 to 1900	
	The Harbour Dues and Harbour Boards Act Amendment Act of 1905	
	The Harbour Boards Act Amendment Act of 1906	
	The Rockhampton Harbour Board Acts, 1895 to 1906	
	The Townsville Harbour Board Act, 1895
The Townsville Harbour Board Act, 1895, Amendment Act of 1897
	
Harbour Dues ……………	The Harbour Dues Act of 1892	
	The Harbour Dues Act of 1893
The Harbour Dues Act of 1895	
	The Harbour Dues and Harbour Boards Acts Amendment Act of 1905	
	The Harbour Dues Acts Amendment Act of 1906
	
Income Tax ……………..	The Income Tax Act of 1902	
	The Income Tax Act Amendment Act of 1902	
	The Income Tax Act Amendment Act of 1904
The Income Tax Act Amendment Act of 1906	
	The Income Tax Act Amendment Act of 1907
	
Juries …………………….	The Jury Acts, 1867 to 1898
	
Justices …………………..	The Justices Acts, 1886 to 1892	
	The Small Debts Acts, 1867 to 1894
	
Lands ……………………	The Land Acts, 1897 and 1902*	
	The Land Acts Amendment Act of 1905*	
	The Land Acts Amendment Act of 1908*	
	The Special Selections Act of 1901†	
	The Special Agricultural Selections Act of 1904*	
	The Pastoral Leases Act of 1869†	
	The Pastoral Leases Act of 1869 Amendment Act of 1900†	
	The Pastoral Leases Extension Acts, 1892 to 1900†	
	The Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Acts, 1893 to 1895†
	
Liquor ……………………	The Licensing Act of 1885	
	The Liquor Act of 1886	
	The Liquor Act of 1895	
	The Liquor Act of 1886 Amendment Act of 1904
	
Local Authorities ………..	The Local Authorities Act of 1902	
	The Local Authorities Act Amendment Act of 1903	
	The Local Authorities Act Amendment Act of 1905	
	The Local Works Loans Acts, 1880 to 1899	
	The City of South Brisbane Loan Acts, 1901 to 1906
	
Masters and Servants ……	The Shearers and Sugar Workers Accommodation Acts, 1905 -1906
	
Meat and Diary Produce …	The Meat and Diary Produce Encouragement Acts, 1893 to 1904
	
Mercantile ……………….	The Mercantile Acts, 1867 to 1896
	
Mining …………………..	The Mining Acts, 1898 to 1902
	
Practice ………………….	The Judicature Act
	
Rabbits …………………..	The Rabbit Boards Act, 1896 to 1905
	
Railways …………………	The Railways Acts, 1863 to 1906	
	The Railways (Employees’ Appeal) Act of 1905	
	The Gladstone to Callide Railway Acts, 1900 to 1902
	
Reformatories ……………	The Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act, 1865 to 1906
	
Shipping …………………	The Navigation Acts, 1876 to 1896	
	The Water Police Act of 1853	
	The Shipping Amendment Act of 1874	
	The Shipping Amendment Act of 1895
	
Societies …………………	The Friendly Societies Act of 1894	
	The Friendly Societies Act Amendment Act of 1902
	
Stamps …………………..	The Stamp Act, 1894	
	The Stamp Act Amendment Act of 1904
	
Stock …………………….	The Diseases in Stock Acts, 1896 to 1898
	
Succession ………………	The Succession and Probate Duties Acts, 1892 to 1906
	
Supreme Court ………….	The Supreme Court Acts, 1861 to 1903
	
Trustees and Executors ….	The Trustees and Executors Acts, 1897 to 1906
	
Water Supply ……………	The Brisbane Water Supply Acts, 1889 to 1905‡

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* Section 4 amended section 8 (2) of “The Acts Shortening Act Amendment Act of 1903." supra, this title. By section 5, certain corrections set forth in the Third Schedule were made in certain Acts. These corrections have been made and noted in this edition.
† By this Schedule certain sections and provisions of certain Acts were repealed. These repeals have been noted in this edition.
§ Apparently superseded by Commonwealth legislation.
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SCHEDULE III. §	[Section 5.]	
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* Repealed, 1 Geo.V. No.15, title Land, Crown.
† Repealed, 9 Edw. VII. No. 20, see Historical Table, Index Volume.
‡ Repealed, 9 Edw. VII. No.12, vol. Private Acts, title Water Supply and Sewerage.
§ By this Schedule certain corrections were made in certain Acts. These corrections have been made and noted in this edition.
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