Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 34

             (1)  In this section:

"Imperial Act" has the same meaning as in the Imperial Acts Application Ordinance 1986 of the Territory.

"law" includes a provision of a law.

             (2)  A law specified in Schedule 2 shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

             (4)  A law (other than a law of the Commonwealth) that, immediately before the commencing day:

                     (a)  was in force in the Territory; and

                     (b)  was an Ordinance, an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales or an Imperial Act;

shall be taken to be an enactment, and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

             (5)  Subsection (4) does not apply to a law specified in Schedule 5.

             (9)  This section does not limit the power of the Assembly to make laws with respect to the common law.