Justices of the Peace Act 1989

Number: A1989-44
Status: In Force

Notes

A current list of Justices of the Peace is available on the Access Canberra^[1] website.

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Effective	Files/Formats	Version	Published	Notes
12 December 2023	HTML PDF Word	R8	12 December 2023	Republication for amendments by A2023-57^[5]

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Attorney-General - Justice and Community Safety Directorate

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Name	Type	Under	Effective	Year and No
Justices of the Peace (Eligibility) Guideline 2011^[6]	Disallowable instruments	s 2	20 September 2011	DI2011-249
Justices of the Peace (Role) Guideline 2016^[7]	Disallowable instruments	s 3A	20 May 2016	DI2016-53
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1998^[8]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	27 February 1998	DI1998-62
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1998^[9]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	9 January 1998	DI1998-4
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[10]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	24 November 1999	DI1999-266
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[11]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	9 June 1999	DI1999-103
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[12]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	5 May 1999	DI1999-85
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[13]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	7 April 1999	DI1999-55
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[14]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	27 January 1999	DI1999-5
Justices of the Peace Appointment 1999^[15]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	13 January 2000	DI1999-304
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2000^[16]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	21 December 2000	DI2000-367
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2000^[17]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	15 June 2000	DI2000-150
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2000^[18]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	16 March 2000	DI2000-87
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2001^[19]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	23 August 2001	DI2001-242
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2002^[20]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	25 March 2002	DI2002-25
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2002^[21]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	25 October 2002	DI2002-183
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2002^[22]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	24 December 2002	DI2002-233
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2004 (No 1)^[23]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	20 February 2004	DI2004-23
Justices of the Peace Appointment of Justices of the Peace 2003 (No 1)^[24]	Disallowable instruments	s 3	5 August 2003	DI2003-242
Justices of the Peace^[25]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	6 January 1992	NI1992-3
Justices of the Peace (Course) Approval 2019^[26]	Notifiable instruments	DI2011-249 cl 1 (f)	25 June 2019	NI2019-397
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2004 (No 1)^[27]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	19 February 2004	NI2004-39
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2004 (No 2)^[28]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	27 August 2004	NI2004-307
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2005 (No 1)^[29]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	8 February 2005	NI2005-43
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2005 (No 2)^[30]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	22 July 2005	NI2005-265
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2005 (No 3)^[31]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	30 September 2005	NI2005-355
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2006 (No 1)^[32]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	20 January 2006	NI2006-15
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2007^[33]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	2 February 2007	NI2007-41
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2007 (No 2)^[34]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	17 March 2007	NI2007-82
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2008 (No 1)^[35]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	19 February 2008	NI2008-48
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2008 (No 2)^[36]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	19 February 2008	NI2008-49
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2008 (No 4)^[37]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	8 July 2008	NI2008-241
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2008 (No 5)^[38]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	15 August 2008	NI2008-338
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2008 (No 7)^[39]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	25 September 2008	NI2008-449
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2009 (No 1)^[40]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	31 July 2009	NI2009-354
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2009 (No 2)^[41]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	31 July 2009	NI2009-333
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2010 (No 1)^[42]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	16 April 2010	NI2010-178
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2010 (No 2)^[43]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	13 July 2010	NI2010-376
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2011 (No 1)^[44]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	18 January 2011	NI2011-8
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2011 (No 2)^[45]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	23 June 2011	NI2011-313
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2011 (No 3)^[46]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	2 September 2011	NI2011-508
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2011 (No 4)^[47]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	25 October 2011	NI2011-618
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2012 (No 1)^[48]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	15 May 2012	NI2012-241
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2012 (No 2)^[49]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	21 August 2012	NI2012-420
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2013 (No 1)^[50]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	30 January 2013	NI2013-36
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2013 (No 2)^[51]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	19 October 2013	NI2013-475
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2013 (No 3)^[52]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	31 October 2013	NI2013-488
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2013 (No 4)^[53]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	12 December 2013	NI2013-574
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2014 (No 1)^[54]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	29 July 2014	NI2014-351
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2015 (No 1)^[55]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	25 September 2015	NI2015-547
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2015 (No 2)^[56]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	25 September 2015	NI2015-548
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2016 (No 1)^[57]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	15 July 2016	NI2016-364
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2016 (No 2)^[58]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	9 August 2016	NI2016-430
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2017 (No 1)^[59]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	28 March 2017	NI2017-138
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2017 (No 2)^[60]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	7 July 2017	NI2017-360
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2017 (No 3)^[61]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	20 October 2017	NI2017-534
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2018 (No 1)^[62]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	2 March 2018	NI2018-107
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2018 (No 2)^[63]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	13 June 2018	NI2018-309
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2018 (No 3)^[64]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	9 November 2018	NI2018-596
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2019 (No 1)^[65]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	24 May 2019	NI2019-290
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2019 (No 2)^[66]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	8 November 2019	NI2019-704
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2019 (No 3)^[67]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	24 December 2019	NI2019-800
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2020 (No 1)^[68]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	24 January 2020	NI2020-41
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2021 (No 1)^[69]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	6 July 2021	NI2021-408
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2022 (No 1)^[70]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	1 July 2022	NI2022-339
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2023 (No 1)^[71]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	24 March 2023	NI2023-144
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2023 (No 2)^[72]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	3 August 2023	NI2023-462
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2023 (No 3)^[73]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	31 October 2023	NI2023-661
Justices of the Peace Appointment 2024 (No 1)^[74]	Notifiable instruments	s 3	31 July 2024	NI2024-420

Point-in-time versions

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Effective	Files/Formats	Version	Published	Notes
12 December 2023	HTML PDF Word	R8	12 December 2023	Republication for amendments by A2023-57^[5]
12 April 2023 - 11 December 2023	HTML PDF Word	R7	12 April 2023	Republication for amendments by A2023-13^[75]
28 September 2010 - 11 April 2023	HTML PDF Word	R6	28 September 2010	Republication for amendments by A2010-30^[76]
12 March 2005 - 27 September 2010	HTML PDF Word	R5	12 March 2005	Republication for amendments by A2005-11^[77]
14 July 2004 - 11 March 2005	HTML PDF Word	R4	14 July 2004	Republication for commenced expiry
13 July 2004 - 13 July 2004	HTML PDF Word	R3	13 July 2004	Republication for amendments by A2004-32^[78]
12 September 2001 - 12 July 2004	HTML PDF Word	R2	12 March 2002	Republication for amendments by A2001-44^[79]
8 March 2001 - 11 September 2001	HTML PDF Word	R1B	24 September 2013	Republication for amendments by A2001-9^[80]
10 November 1999 - 7 March 2001	HTML PDF Word	R1A	24 September 2013	Republication for amendments by A1999-66^[81]
11 May 1989 - 9 November 1999	HTML PDF Word	R1 (RI)	24 September 2013	Republication for initial republication since self-government Reissued electronic republication of printed version
11 May 1989	HTML PDF Word	As notified	10 May 1989	This ordinance became an ACT Act on 11 May 1989 (see Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cwlth) s 34 (4))

Law history

Notification statement

The Justices of the Peace Ordinance 1989 was notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10 May 1989 (Cwlth Gaz 1989 No S160).

(Parliamentary Counsel)

Ordinance as notified

Date notified	Effective	Files/Formats	Notes
10 May 1989	11 May 1989	HTML PDF Word	This ordinance became an ACT Act on 11 May 1989 (see Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cwlth) s 34 (4))

Explanatory statement

Version	Published	Files/Formats
As presented	10 May 1989	PDF PDF

Commencement

Provision	Commencement date	Commencement method
s 1, s 2	10 May 1989	s 2 (1)
remainder	11 May 1989	s 2 (2) and see Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cwlth)^[82], s 2 (2) and Cwlth Gaz 1989 No S164

Expiries

Provision	Expiry date	Expiry method
s 7	13 July 2004 (midnight)	s 7 (2)

Amendments

For section-by-section amendment annotations, see the amendment history in the endnotes in the current version of this law.

Year and number	Amending law	Amending provision	Commencement date
A2023-57^[5]	Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2023 (No 3)	pt 11	12 December 2023
A2023-13^[75]	Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2023	pt 5	12 April 2023
A2010-30^[83]	Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2010 (No 2)	sch 1 pt 1.13	28 September 2010
A2005-11^[84]	Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2005 (No 2)	pt 4	12 March 2005
A2004-32^[85]	Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2004 (No 2)	pt 11	13 July 2004
A2001-44^[86]	Legislation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001	pt 203	12 September 2001
A2001-9^[87]	Justice and Community Safety Amendment Act 2001	sch 1	8 March 2001
A1999-66^[88]	Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999	sch 3	10 November 1999

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https://legislation.act.gov.au/di/2000-367/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/di/2000-150/
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https://legislation.act.gov.au/di/2001-242/
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https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2008-338/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2008-449/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2009-354/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2009-333/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2010-178/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2010-376/
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https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2014-351/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2015-547/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2015-548/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2016-364/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2016-430/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2017-138/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2017-360/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2017-534/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2018-107/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2018-309/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2018-596/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2019-290/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2019-704/
https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2019-800/
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https://legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2021-408/
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