Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS (NOTIFICATION) ACT 1972 - SECT 3

(1)

The publication in the Gazette , before the commencement of this Act, of any form of words being, purporting to be, or apparently intended to be:

(a)

a notice or notification of the making of, with respect to the making of, or referring to the making of:

(i)

an Ordinance under a law of the Commonwealth; or

(ii)

any regulations, rules, by-laws or other instrument under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory; or

(b)

a notice or notification of any such Ordinance, regulations, rules, by-laws or instrument having been made,

shall be taken to be, and to have always been, a sufficient compliance with a requirement of any law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory that the Ordinance, regulations, rules, by-laws or other instrument be published or notified in the Gazette , and the date of the publication in the Gazette of that form of words shall be deemed, for the purposes of that law, to have been the date on which the Ordinance, regulations, rules, by-laws or instrument was or were published or notified in the Gazette .

(2)

Where there have been two or more publications in the Gazette of forms of words being, purporting to be, or apparently intended to be, notices or notifications of a kind referred to in the last preceding subsection in relation to the same Ordinance, regulations, rules, by-laws or instrument, that subsection applies only in relation to the earlier or earliest of those publications.

(3)

In this section, the Gazette includes any Gazette or similiar publication published by or under the authority of the Administration of a Territory.