FLAGS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 No. 2, 1998

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FLAGS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 No. 2, 1998 - SECT 3

Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Flags Act 1953 1 At the end of section 3

Add:

(2) The blue flag referred to in subsection (1) ceases to be the Australian National Flag if, and only if:

(b) the new flag, or one of the new flags, is chosen by a majority of all the electors voting.

(3) The form and manner in which a proposal for a new Australian National Flag is submitted to electors, and the manner in which a vote on the proposal is taken (which may include the adoption of a form of preferential voting for choosing among 3 or more flags), and arrangements for adopting a new flag as the Australian National Flag if chosen as mentioned in subsection (2), are to be as the Parliament prescribes.

(4) In this section:

Territory means any Territory referred to in section 122 of the Constitution in respect of which there is in force a law allowing its representation in the House of Representatives.

[ Minister's second reading speech made in

House of Representatives on 26 June 1996

Senate on 13 December 1996 ]

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