Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 17

             (1)  Subject to subsection (3), the Assembly shall meet:

                     (a)  within 7 days after the result of a general election is declared; and

                     (b)  within 7 days after a written request for a meeting, signed by such number of members as is fixed by enactment, is delivered to the Presiding Officer.

             (2)  The Presiding Officer shall, by notice published in the Territory Gazette , convene a meeting when it is necessary to do so to comply with subsection (1).

             (3)  If the Presiding Officer is required by subsection (2) to convene a meeting within a particular period and:

                     (a)  the office of Presiding Officer is vacant, whether or not a person has been previously elected to the office; or

                     (b)  the Presiding Officer is unable, or refuses or fails, to convene a meeting within that period;

the Commonwealth Minister shall, by notice published in the Commonwealth Gazette , convene the meeting within that period or, if that is not practicable, within 7 days after that period.