SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 40, 1978 

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 40, 1978 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title.  
2. Commencement  
3. Ordinances  

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 40, 1978
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Short title.

          SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978
                                 No. 40 of 1978

An Act to amend section 12 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act
1910. 

  BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title
  1. This Act may be cited as the Seat of Government (Administration)
Amendment Act 1978.*1*

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 40, 1978
- SECT 2
Commencement

  2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 40, 1978
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Ordinances

  3. Section 12 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910*2* is
amended-

  (a)  by inserting in sub-section (2A) ''or places'' after ''place''; and

  (b)  by inserting after sub-section (2A) the following sub-sections:

     ''(2B) Where a notice of an Ordinance having been made is published in
accordance with sub-section (2A), copies of the Ordinance shall, at the time
of publication of the notice or as soon as practicable thereafter, be made
available for purchase at the place, or at each of the places, specified in
the notice.

     ''(2C) Where, on the date of publication of a notice referred to in
sub-section (2B), there are no copies of the Ordinance to which the notice
relates available for purchase at the place, or at one or more of the places,
specified in the notice, the Minister of State for Administrative Services
shall cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting
days of that House after that date, a statement that copies of the Ordinance
were not so available and the reason why they were not so available.

     ''(2D) Failure to comply with a requirement of sub-section (2B) or (2C)
shall not be taken to constitute a failure to comply with paragraph (2) (a) or
sub-section (2A).''.
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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 40, 1978 - NOTES

                                     NOTES
1.  Act No. 40, 1978; assented to 12 June 1978.
2.  Act No. 25, 1910, as amended. For previous amendments see Act No. 44,
1928; No. 2, 1930; No. 9, 1931; No. 4, 1933; No. 86, 1939; No. 14, 1940; No.
90, 1959; and No. 24, 1963.