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MINORS (PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS) ACT 1970 - As at 8 July 2015 - Act 60 of 1970 - NOTES

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   21 February 1975  
Reprint No 2   10 January 1979  
Reprint No 3   16 November 1987  
Reprint No 4   22 October 1991  
Reprint No 5   21 August 2001  

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970 No 60. Assented to 13.11.1970. Date of commencement, 1.7.1971, sec 1 (2) and GG No 60 of 4.6.1971, p 1863. This Act has been amended as follows:

1970 No 52 Supreme Court Act 1970. Assented to 14.10.1970.
Date of commencement, Part 9 excepted, 1.7.1972, sec 2 (1) and GG No 59 of 2.6.1972, p 2018. Amended by Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 1972 No 41. Assented to 11.4.1972.
1973 No 9 District Court Act 1973. Assented to 10.4.1973.
Date of commencement, 1.7.1973, sec 2 and GG No 75 of 8.6.1973, p 2158.
No 68 Strata Titles Act 1973. Assented to 18.10.1973.
Date of commencement, 1.7.1974, sec 2 and GG No 72 of 21.6.1974, p 2179. Amended by Strata Titles (Amendment) Act 1974 No 35. Assented to 19.4.1974. Date of commencement, sec 3 excepted, 1.7.1974, sec 2 (1) and GG No 72 of 21.6.1974, p 2179.
1979 No 78 Legal Services Commission Act 1979. Assented to 16.5.1979.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 21.12.1979, sec 2 (3) and GG No 171 of 7.12.1979, p 6129.
1981 No 90 Miscellaneous Acts (State Bank) Repeal and Amendment Act 1981. Assented to 10.6.1981.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 2.11.1981, sec 2 (2) and GG No 168 of 2.11.1981, p 5673.
No 125 Moneylending (Repeal) Act 1981. Assented to 30.12.1981.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 28.2.1985, sec 2 (2) and GG No 178 of 21.12.1984, p 6297. Amended by Miscellaneous Acts (Credit) Repeal and Amendment Act 1984 No 100. Assented to 28.6.1984.
1982 No 88 Miscellaneous Acts (Community Welfare) Repeal and Amendment Act 1982. Assented to 25.5.1982.
To commence on a day to be appointed and notified under sec 2 (2). No day was so appointed and the Act was repealed by the Miscellaneous Acts (Community Welfare) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987.
No 148 Liquor (Repeals and Savings) Act 1982. Assented to 21.12.1982.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.7.1983, sec 2 (3) and GG No 74 of 20.5.1983, p 2181.
1983 No 181 Miscellaneous Acts (Mental Health) Repeal and Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 31.12.1983.
The provision of Sch 1 relating to the Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970 was not commenced and the Act was repealed by the Miscellaneous Acts (Mental Health) Repeal and Amendment Act 1990 No 11.
1984 No 153 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1984. Assented to 10.12.1984.
1987 No 15 Interpretation Act 1987. Assented to 13.4.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.9.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
No 48 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 32, except as provided by sec 2 (13), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
No 70 Workers Compensation Act 1987. Assented to 10.6.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 5, 30.6.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 102 of 17.6.1987, p 2945.
No 203 Miscellaneous Acts (Prickly Pear) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 8.12.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.1.1988, sec 2.
No 262 Miscellaneous Acts (Disability Services and Guardianship) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 16.12.1987.
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970, 1.8.1989, sec 2 (4) and GG No 83 of 14.7.1989, p 4199.
1989 No 144 Minors (Property and Contracts) Amendment Act 1989. Assented to 25.10.1989.
Date of commencement, 21.12.1990, sec 2 and GG No 174 of 21.12.1990, p 11189.
1997 No 49 Guardianship Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 2.7.1997.
Date of commencement, 2.2.1998, sec 2 and GG No 16 of 30.1.1998, p 434.
No 147 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1997. Assented to 17.12.1997.
Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1998 No 137 Justices Legislation Amendment (Appeals) Act 1998. Assented to 8.12.1998.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.18, 1.3.1999, sec 2 and GG No 25 of 26.2.1999, p 973.
1999 No 31 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999.
Date of commencement of Schs 4 and 5, assent, sec 2 (1).
No 85 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
2001 No 121 Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978.
2002 No 26 Financial Services Reform (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002. Assented to 21.6.2002.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.8, 1.9.2002, sec 2 (2) and GG No 133 of 23.8.2002, p 6195.
2006 No 80 Succession Act 2006. Assented to 27.10.2006.
Date of commencement, 1.3.2008, sec 2 and GG No 16 of 15.2.2008, p 707.
2007 No 94 Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007.
Date of commencement of Schs 1.68 and 3, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
2009 No 49 NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009. Assented to 26.6.2009.
Date of commencement, 1.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (305) LW 1.7.2009.
No 61 Occupational Licensing Legislation Amendment (Regulatory Reform) Act 2009. Assented to 16.9.2009.
Date of commencement of Sch 4.7, 1.7.2010, sec 2 (2).
2010 No 34 Health Practitioner Regulation Amendment Act 2010. Assented to 15.6.2010.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.7.2010, sec 2 (2).
2013 No 80 Crimes and Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 29.10.2013.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
2015 No 15 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015. Assented to 29.6.2015.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 8.7.2015, sec 2 (1).
This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 11.2.1975, and published in GG No 35 of 14.2.1975, p 522, declaring that:
(a) secs 1 and 51 of the Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970 are enactments to which sec 8 (2) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 applies, and
(b) the Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970 is an enactment to which sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 applies.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1997.

Sec 2 Rep 1999 No 31, Sch 5.71.
Sec 3 Am 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
Sec 9 Am 1987 No 262, Sch 1; 1997 No 49, Sch 3.4.
Sec 27 Am 1989 No 144, Sch 1 (1); 1998 No 137, Sch 2.18; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.60 [1]-[3]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.149 [1]; 2007 No 94, Schs 1.68 [1] [2], 3; 2015 No 15, Sch 2.35.
Sec 28 Am 2002 No 26, Sch 2.8 [1] [2]; 2009 No 49, Sch 2.38.
Sec 29 Am 2002 No 26, Sch 2.8 [3] [4]; 2009 No 49, Sch 2.38.
Sec 40 Am 1989 No 144, Sch 1 (2); 1999 No 31, Sch 4.60 [1] [2]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.149 [2]; 2007 No 94, Sch 3; 2013 No 80, Sch 12 [1] [2].
Sec 41 Am 1999 No 31, Sch 4.60 [1]; 2007 No 94, Sch 1.68 [3] [4].
Sec 42 Am 1999 No 31, Sch 4.60 [1]. Rep 2007 No 94, Sch 1.68 [5].
Sec 49 Am 2010 No 34, Sch 2.35.
Sec 51 Subst 1970 No 52, Second Sch (am 1972 No 41, Second Sch). Am 1987 No 48, Sch 32; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.60 [4]; 2007 No 94, Sch 1.68 [6].
First Sch Am 1973 No 9, Sch 2; 1973 No 68, Sch 3; 1979 No 78, Sch 1; 1981 No 90, Sch 1; 1981 No 125, Sch 1; 1984 No 153, Sch 16; 1987 No 15, Sch 2; 1987 No 70, Sch 5. Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
Second Sch Am 1981 No 125, Sch 1; 1982 No 148, Sch 1; 1987 No 203, Sch 2; 2006 No 80, Sch 3.11; 2009 No 61, Sch 4.7.


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