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COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 13A Ordinance not to be re - made while required to be tabled

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 13A

Ordinance not to be re - made while required to be tabled

  (1)   Where an Ordinance (in this section called the original Ordinance ) has been made, no Ordinance containing a provision being the same in substance as a provision of the original Ordinance shall be made during the period defined by subsection   ( 2) unless both Houses of the Parliament by resolution approve the making of an Ordinance containing a provision the same in substance as that provision of the original Ordinance.

  (2)   The period referred to in subsection   ( 1) is the period starting on the day on which the original Ordinance was made and ending at the end of 7 days after:

  (a)   if the original Ordinance has been laid, in accordance with subsection   13(1), before both Houses of the Parliament on the same day--that day;

  (b)   if the original Ordinance has been so laid before both Houses on different days--the later of those days; or

  (c)   if the original Ordinance has not been so laid before both Houses--the last day on which subsection   13(1) could have been complied with.

  (3)   If a provision of an Ordinance is made in contravention of this section, the provision has no effect.