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GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1966 - NOTES

- As at 6 July 2009 - Act 13 of 1966

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   5 March 1979  
Reprint No 2   11 November 1991  
Reprint No 3   12 December 1994  

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Geographical Names Act 1966 No 13. Assented to 30.3.1966. Date of commencement for certain purposes, 30.3.1966, sec 1 (3); for all purposes, 26.8.1966, sec 1 (2) and GG No 92 of 26.8.1966, p 3548.

1987 No 48 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 32, except as provided by sec 2 (13), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
No 63 Miscellaneous Acts (Education and Public Instruction) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 3.6.1987.
Date of commencement of Sch 2, 17.8.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 126 of 31.7.1987, p 4254.
1988 No 131 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 3) 1988. Assented to 30.12.1988.
Date of commencement of Sch 10, 1.11.1989, sec 2 (2) and GG No 105 of 27.10.1989, p 8851.
1990 No 46 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990. Assented to 22.6.1990.
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, sec 2.
1993 No 33 Roads Act 1993. Assented to 8.6.1993.
Date of commencement, 1.7.1993, sec 2 and GG No 73 of 1.7.1993, p 3343.
No 47 Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1993. Assented to 15.6.1993.
Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
No 108 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1993. Assented to 2.12.1993.
Date of commencement of items (1), (2), (3) (b), (c), (g) and (h) of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, Sch 1; date of commencement of items (3) (a) and (d)-(f) of those provisions, 31.1.1994, Sch 1 and GG No 27 of 28.1.1994, p 339; item (4) of those provisions was not commenced and was superseded by the amendment made by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994 No 32.
1994 No 32 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994. Assented to 2.6.1994.
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 2 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, assent, Sch 2.
1995 No 11 Statute Law Revision (Local Government) Act 1995. Assented to 9.6.1995.
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Geographical Names Act 1966, 23.6.1995, sec 2 (1) and GG No 77 of 23.6.1995, p 3279.
1999 No 85 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
2000 No 53 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2000. Assented to 29.6.2000.
Date of commencement of Sch 3.8, assent, sec 2 (2).
2001 No 112 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2001. Assented to 14.12.2001.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.12, assent, sec 2 (2).
2002 No 83 Surveying Act 2002. Assented to 29.10.2002.
Date of commencement, 25.6.2003, sec 2 and GG No 103 of 25.6.2003, p 5903.
2004 No 55 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004. Assented to 6.7.2004.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.13, assent, sec 2 (2).
2007 No 94 Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007.
Date of commencement of Sch 4, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
This Act has also been amended pursuant to orders under secs 8 (2), 9 (3) and 9A of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 21.2.1979, and published in GG No 30 of 23.2.1979, p 834, declaring that the Geographical Names Act 1966 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply. Order dated 21.2.1979 and published in GG No 33 of 2.3.1979, p 953.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972.

Sec 2 Am 1987 No 63, Sch 2; 1993 No 108, Sch 1; 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [1].
Sec 3 Am GG No 33 of 2.3.1979, p 953; 1988 No 131, Sch 10; 1990 No 46, Sch 1; 1993 No 108, Sch 1; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [2]-[7]; 2002 No 83, Sch 2.9; 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [1] [2].
Sec 5 Am 2000 No 53, Sch 3.8; 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [3].
Sec 7A Ins 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [4].
Sec 9 Am 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [8]-[11].
Sec 10 Am 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [12] [13].
Sec 13 Rep 1993 No 33, Sch 1.
Sec 15 Am 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1994 No 32, Sch 2; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [14] [15]; 2007 No 94, Sch 4.
Sec 18 Am 2004 No 55, Sch 1.13 [5].
Sec 19 Am 1987 No 48, Sch 32.
Sec 20 Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. Ins 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 [16].
The whole Act (except sec 3 (2) (b)) Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (“chairman” omitted wherever occurring, “chairperson” inserted instead).
The whole Act Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “he” wherever occurring, “or she” inserted).
The whole Act (except sec 3 (2) (b), (c) and (d)) Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “him” wherever occurring, “or her” inserted).
The whole Act (except sec 3 (3A)) Am 1993 No 108, Sch 1 (after “his” wherever occurring, “or her” inserted).