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TASMANIA
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PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
BILL 2009
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Section 15 amended (Functions of Committee)
5. Section 16 amended (Conditions precedent to commencing
public works)
6. Section 17 amended (Power of House of Assembly to extend
Act)
7. Transitional provision
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PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
BILL 2009
(Brought in by the Premier, the Honourable David John
Bartlett)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Public Works Committee Act 1914
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Public Works
Committee Amendment Act 2009.
2. Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act
In this Act, the Public Works Committee Act
1914* is referred to as the Principal Act.
*No. 32 of 1914
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4. Section 15 amended (Functions of Committee)
Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended as
follows:
(a) by omitting from subsection (1)
"proposed public work the cost of which
is to be defrayed out of the Loan Fund"
and substituting "public work that is
proposed to be undertaken by a general
government sector body,";
(b) by omitting from subsection (1)
"$2 000 000" and substituting
"$5 000 000";
(c) by inserting the following subsection
after subsection (2):
(3) In this section
"general government sector
body" means
(a) a Government
department within
the meaning of the
State Service Act
2000; and
(b) any State authority
classified as an
entity within the
general
government sector
in the Treasurer's
annual report;
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"State authority" means a
body or authority,
whether incorporated or
not, that is established or
constituted under a
written law or under the
royal prerogative, being a
body or authority which,
or of which the governing
authority, wholly or partly
comprises a person or
persons appointed by the
Governor, a Minister or
another State authority,
but does not include a
Government department
within the meaning of the
State Service Act 2000;
"Treasurer's annual report"
means the annual report
prepared by the Treasurer
under section 26A of the
Financial Management
and Audit Act 1990.
5. Section 16 amended (Conditions precedent to
commencing public works)
Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended as
follows:
(a) by omitting from subsection (1)
"$2 000 000" and substituting
"$5 000 000";
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(b) by omitting from subsection (2) "Prior to
the submission to Parliament of any such
proposed public work, the" and
substituting "The".
6. Section 17 amended (Power of House of Assembly
to extend Act)
Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting "$2 000 000" and substituting
"$5 000 000".
7. Transitional provision
If, before the day on which this Act commences,
a proposed work is referred to the Committee for
the Committee to report upon the work, then,
despite the amendments to the Principal Act
made by this Act, the Principal Act, as in force
immediately before that day, continues to apply
to the proposed work as if the amendments had
not been made.
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