Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

INEBRIATES ACT, 1900 - SECT 14

    The Governor may license Institutions for the reception, control, and treatment of inebriates, and may make regulations—

        (a)     for the issue and revocation of such licenses;

        (b)     for the regulation, management, and inspection of licensed Institutions, and of Institutions established by the Government and providing for the proper and suitable employment of persons detained in such institutions;

        (c)     for determining the fees payable by inebriates placed in any Institution;

        (d)     for the control and discipline of inebriates and the discipline of officers and attendants under this Act, whether in Institutions or otherwise;

    (d1)     providing for the release of inebriates from State institutions on license, and for the retaking of inebriates who break the conditions of any such license, and for returning them to such institutions; and

        (e)     for carrying out the provisions of this Act;

and may in these regulations impose any penalty not exceeding—

        (a)     if the offender is a natural person—10 penalty units; or

        (b)     if the offender is a body corporate—50 penalty units;

for any breach of the same. All such regulations on being published in the Gazette shall have the force of law, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.