Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 40, 1978 - SECT 3

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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