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10Enactments repealed Empowered by s 73

  • Animals Protection and Game Act 1921–22 (1921–22 No 57) (Reprint of Statutes, Vol I, p 183)
  • Injurious Birds Act 1908 (1908 No 87) (Reprint of Statutes, Vol I, p 234)
  • Local Legislation Act 1951 (1951 No 69)
  • Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1923 (1923 No 35)
  • Statutes Amendment Act 1936 (1936 No 58)
  • Statutes Amendment Act 1945 (1945 No 40)
  • Statutes Amendment Act 1946 (1946 No 40)