Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 29

             (1)  In this section:

"enactment" includes a part of an enactment.

"Parliamentary precincts" means the precincts defined by subsection 3(1) of the Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988 .

             (2)  If either House of the Parliament passes a resolution declaring that an enactment made after the commencing day does not apply:

                     (a)  to that House;

                     (b)  to the members of that House; or

                     (c)  in the Parliamentary precincts;

the resolution has effect according to its tenor and the enactment does not apply accordingly.

             (3)  A resolution under subsection (2):

                     (a)  does not have effect in respect of the application of an enactment on a day before the day on which the resolution is passed; and

                     (b)  has effect, to the extent that the enactment ceases to apply, as if the enactment were repealed by another enactment.