{"id":"C2004L06682","name":"Unlawful Assemblies Repeal Ordinance 2001 (ACT)","slug":"unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":28327,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004L06682-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Unlawful Assemblies Repeal Ordinance 2001 (ACT)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nAustralian Capital Territory\n\nUnlawful Assemblies Repeal Ordinance 2001\n\nNo. 2 of 20011\n\nI, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.\n\nDated 28 June 2001\n\nWILLIAM DEANE\n\nGovernor-General\n\nBy His Excellency's Command\n\nIAN MACDONALD\n\nMinister for Regional Services, Territories and\n\nLocal Government\n\nfor the Attorney-General\n\nAn Ordinance to repeal the Unlawful Assemblies Ordinance 1937\n\n \n\n \n\n1 Name of Ordinance\n\n  This Ordinance is the Unlawful Assemblies Repeal Ordinance 2001.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n  This Ordinance commences on gazettal.\n\n3 Unlawful Assemblies Ordinance 1937 — repeal\n\n  The following Ordinances are repealed:\n\n  No. 9 of 1937\n\n  No. 14 of 1937.\n\nNote\n\n1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 July 2001.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1734},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Ordinance remains strictly limited to its original purpose of repealing the two specified 1937 Ordinances (Nos. 9 and 14 of 1937) concerning unlawful assemblies."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 sections total","No defined terms or interpretation section","Single operative provision performing a straightforward repeal of two specified Ordinances","No conditional logic, exceptions, or internal cross-references"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:** This short law removes outdated restrictions on public gatherings from the ACT statute books.\n\n**In plain terms:** It cancels (repeals) the *Unlawful Assemblies Ordinance 1937*, which previously made certain types of public gatherings illegal. Once this law takes effect, the old rules about what counts as an 'unlawful assembly' no longer apply.\n\n**Who it affects:** Anyone in the ACT who might gather in public. Before this law, some gatherings could have been deemed 'unlawful' under the 1937 rules. After this law, those specific restrictions are gone (though other public order laws still apply).\n\n**Why it matters:** This is a 'housekeeping' measure that removes old, potentially undemocratic restrictions on the right to assemble that date back to 1937."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act","history":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act/history","analysis":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/unlawful-assemblies-repeal-ordinance-2001-act/documents"}}