LEGISLATION ACT 2001 - SECT 257 Out-of-session presentation of documents to Legislative Assembly

LEGISLATION ACT 2001 - SECT 257

    (1)     This section applies if a provision of a law requires a person to present a document to the Legislative Assembly within a stated period that is not expressed as a stated number of sitting days.

    (2)     If it is not reasonably practicable to present the document within the stated period—

        (a)     the person may give the document, and a copy for each member of the Legislative Assembly, to the Speaker before the end of the stated period; and

        (b)     the document is taken for all purposes to have been presented to the Legislative Assembly on the day the person gives it to the Speaker; and

        (c)     the Speaker must arrange for a copy of the document to be given to each member of the Legislative Assembly; and

        (d)     the Speaker must present the document to the Legislative Assembly—

              (i)     on the next sitting day; or

              (ii)     if the next sitting day is the first meeting of the Legislative Assembly after a general election of members of the Assembly—on the second sitting day after the election.

    (3)     In this section:

"Speaker" includes—

        (a)     if the Speaker is unavailable—the Deputy Speaker; and

        (b)     if both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker are unavailable—the clerk of the Legislative Assembly.

"unavailable"—the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is "unavailable" if—

        (a)     he or she is absent from duty; or

        (b)     there is a vacancy in the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker.