Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 37 of 1993 - SECT 33

33. After section 104 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Election for Torres Strait Regional Council deferred from 1993 to 1994
Exemption from 1993 round of elections

"104A.(1) The Torres Strait Regional Council is exempt from the 1993 round of
Regional Council elections. Deferral of election until 1994

"(2) Unless the Parliament otherwise provides, the election for the Torres
Strait Regional Council that would otherwise have been held in 1993 must be
held in 1994. Date of 1994 election

"(3) Unless the Parliament otherwise provides, the polling day or days for the
1994 election for the Torres Strait Regional Council must be not later than
the day in 1994 on which the triennial election is held for an Island Council
under the Queensland Act. Modification of references to 1993 round of
elections

"(4) A reference in a provision of this Act (other than this section), or in a
provision of any other law of the Commonwealth, to:

   (a)  the end of the election period for the round of Regional Council
        elections for 1993; or

   (b)  the end of the round of Regional Council elections for 1993; has
        effect, for the purposes of the application of that provision to the
        Torres Strait Regional Council, as if it were a reference to:

   (c)  the end of the election period for the Torres Strait Regional Council
        election for 1994; or

   (d)  the end of the Torres Strait Regional Council election for 1994; as
        the case requires. 1994 election to be treated as a round in its own
        right

"(5) The following provisions apply in relation to the Torres Strait Regional
Council election for 1994 as if that election were a round in its own right:

   (a)  definition of 'election period' in subsection 4(1);

   (b)  paragraph 91(7)(b);

   (c)  paragraph 100A(5)(b);

   (d)  subsection 104(2);

   (e)  subsection 130(3);

   (f)  paragraph 132(1)(b);

   (g)  section 133. Start of election period for 1994

"(6) Subsection 106(1A) applies in relation to the Torres Strait Regional
Council as if a reference in that subsection to the round of Regional Council
elections for 1993 were a reference to the Torres Strait Regional Council
election for 1994. Application of amendments

"(7) Subsections 20(1) and 32(2) of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 2) 1993 apply in relation to the Torres
Strait Regional Council as if a reference in the subsection to the round of
Regional Council elections for 1993 were a reference to the Torres Strait
Regional Council election for 1994. Zone election

"(8) Division 7 applies in relation to the zone election for the Torres Strait
zone that is required to be held as soon as practicable after the Torres
Strait Regional Council election for 1994 as if the zone election were a round
in its own right. Definition

"(9) In this section:
'Queensland Act' means the Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984 of
Queensland as amended and in force from time to time, and includes any law of
Queensland that replaces that Act.".