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WESTERN AUSTRALIA AGREEMENT (ORD RIVER IRRIGATION) ACT 1980 - NOTES



Compilation Information

Western Australia Agreement (Ord River Irrigation) Act 1980 Act No. 99 of 1980

This Act was prepared on 10 June 2004
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra



Preamble

WHEREAS the Western Australia Agreement (Ord River Irrigation) Act 1968 authorized the execution, on behalf of the Commonwealth, of an agreement between the Commonwealth and Western Australia to provide financial assistance to Western Australia for the construction of a dam on the Ord River and associated works, being an agreement substantially in accordance with the form of the agreement set out in the Schedule to that Act:
AND WHEREAS on 24 June 1968 the Commonwealth executed an agreement with Western Australia in accordance with that form:
AND WHEREAS it is desirable to authorize the execution, on behalf of the Commonwealth, of a further agreement between the Commonwealth and Western Australia varying the first-mentioned agreement to include certain works for the construction of crop handling and processing facilities for produce from the Ord Irrigation Area in the works to be undertaken by Western Australia pursuant to that agreement:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

WESTERN AUSTRALIA AGREEMENT (ORD RIVER IRRIGATION) ACT 1980
Notes to the Western Australia Agreement (Ord River Irrigation) Act 1980

Note 1

Act No. 99, 1980; assented to and commenced 6 June 1980.