Women’s Legal Status Act 1923

 

Women’s Legal Status Act 1923

CONTENTS

1.Short title1

2.Removal of disqualification on grounds of sex1

Notes

Compilation table2

 

Women’s Legal Status Act 1923

An Act to amend the Law with respect to Disqualifications on account of Sex.

[Assented to 22 December 1923.]

Be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: — 

1.Short title

This Act may be cited as the Women’s Legal Status Act 1923.

2.Removal of disqualification on grounds of sex

A person shall not be disqualified by sex from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or judicial office or post, or from being admitted and entitled to practise as a legal practitioner (as defined in the Legal Practice Act 2003), or from entering or assuming or carrying on any other profession, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

[Section 2 amended by No. 65 of 2003 s. 71.]

 

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Women’s Legal Status Act 1923 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table.

Compilation table

Act

Number and Year

Assent

Commencement

Miscellaneous

Women’s Legal Status Act 1923

56 of 1923

22 December 1923

22 December 1923

 

Acts Amendment and Repeal (Courts and Legal Practice) Act 2003 s. 71

65 of 2003

4 Dec 2003

1 Jan 2004 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Dec 2003 p. 5722)