Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NORTHERN TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1978 No. 58, 1978 - SECT 9

9. (1) Subject to this section, the Governor-General may, within 6 months
after the Administrator's assent to a proposed law, disallow the law or part
of the law.

(2) The Governor-General may, within 6 months after the Administrator's assent
to a proposed law, recommend to the Administrator any amendments of the laws
of the Territory that the Governor-General considers to be desirable as a
result of his consideration of the law.

(3) Where, as a result of his consideration of a law, the Governor-General so
recommends any amendments of the laws of the Territory, the time within which
the Governor-General may disallow the law, or a part of the law, is extended
until the expiration of 6 months after the date of the Governor-General's
recommendation.

(4) Upon publication of notice of the disallowance of a law, or part of a law,
in the Government Gazette of the Territory, the disallowance has, subject to
sub-section (5), the same effect as a repeal of the law or part of the law.

(5) If a provision of a disallowed law, or a provision of a disallowed part of
a law, amended or repealed a law in force immediately before the commencement
of that provision, the disallowance revives the previous law from the date of
publication of the notice of disallowance as if the disallowed provision had
not been made.