AUSTRALIA ACT 1986 No. 142 of 1985 - SECT 15 Method of repeal or amendment of this Act or Statute of Westminster

AUSTRALIA ACT 1986 No. 142 of 1985 - SECT 15

15. (1) This Act or the Statute of Westminster 1931, as amended and in force
from time to time, in so far as it is part of the law of the Commonwealth, of
a State or of a Territory, may be repealed or amended by an Act of the
Parliament of the Commonwealth passed at the request or with the concurrence
of the Parliaments of all the States and, subject to subsection (3) below,
only in that manner.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, an Act of the Parliament of the
Commonwealth that is repugnant to this Act or the Statute of Westminster 1931,
as amended and in force from time to time, or to any provision of this Act or
of that Statute as so amended and in force, shall, to the extent of the
repugnancy, be deemed an Act to repeal or amend the Act,Statute or provision
to which it is repugnant.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) above limits or prevents the exercise by the
Parliament of the Commonwealth of any powers that may be conferred upon that
Parliament by any alteration to the Constitution of the Commonwealth made in
accordance with section 128 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth after the
commencement of this Act.