LEGISLATION ACT 2001 - SECT 69 Notification of amendments made by resolution of Assembly
LEGISLATION ACT 2001 - SECT 69
Notification of amendments made by resolution of Assembly(1) If a subordinate law or disallowable instrument (the amended law ) is amended under section 68, the Speaker must ask the parliamentary counsel to notify the amendment.
(2) If the Speaker asks the parliamentary counsel to notify the amendment, the parliamentary counsel must—
(a) notify the amendment in the register; or
(b) if it is not practicable to notify the amendment in the register—notify the amendment in another place the parliamentary counsel considers appropriate.
Examples—other places
1 another government website
2 outside the Legislative Assembly
(3) If the Speaker asks the parliamentary counsel to notify the amendment on a particular day, the parliamentary counsel must notify the amendment on that day unless it is impracticable to do so.
(4) The amendment is notified in the register by entering in the register—
(a) a statement that the amendment of the amended law has been made under section 68; and
(b) the text of the resolution passed, or taken to have been passed, by the Legislative Assembly under section 68; and
(c) the day when the resolution was passed or taken to have been passed; and
(d) the day when the subordinate law or disallowable instrument is taken to be amended because of the resolution.
(5) The amendment is notified under subsection (2) (b) by publishing in the place decided by the parliamentary counsel under that subsection—
(a) a statement that the amendment of the amended law has been made under section 68; and
(b) the text of the resolution passed, or taken to have been passed, by the Legislative Assembly under section 68; and
(c) the day when the resolution was passed or taken to have been passed; and
(d) the day when the subordinate law or disallowable instrument is taken to be amended because of the resolution.
(6) If the amendment is notified under subsection (2) (b), the parliamentary counsel must enter in the register—
(a) a statement that the amendment of the amended law has been made under section 68; and
(b) a statement that the amendment was notified under subsection (2) (b) in a stated place on a stated date; and
(c) the text of the resolution passed, or taken to have been passed, by the Legislative Assembly under section 68; and
(d) the day when the resolution was passed or taken to have been passed; and
(e) the day when the subordinate law or disallowable instrument is taken to be amended because of the resolution.
(7) This section is a determinative provision.
Note See s 5 for the meaning of determinative provisions, and s 6 for their displacement.