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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Australia Acts (Request) Act 1999
Act No.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1. Purpose 2
2. Commencement 2
3. Request for amendment of Australia Acts 1986 2
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SCHEDULE 3
NOTES 5
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
A BILL
to request the amendment of the Australia Acts 1986 in connection
with proposed constitutional arrangements to establish the
Commonwealth of Australia as a republic.
Australia Acts (Request) Act 1999
Preamble
(1) The Government of the Commonwealth proposes to
introduce a Bill for a proposed law to alter the Constitution
of the Commonwealth to establish the Commonwealth of
Australia as a republic with a President chosen by a two-
thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth
Parliament.
(2) If passed by an absolute majority of each House of the
Parliament, the proposed law will be put to the Australian
people at a constitutional referendum in accordance with
section 128 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth.
(3) If the proposed law is approved by the Australian people, it
is desirable that the Australia Act 1986 of the
Commonwealth and the Australia Act 1986 of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom be amended to remove
any impediment to the alteration by a State of its laws
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relating to the powers and functions of Her Majesty and the
Governor in respect of the State.
(4) Section 15(1) of each of the Australia Acts mentioned in
sub-clause (3) provides for the amendment of each of those
Acts by an Act of the Parliament of the Commonwealth
passed at the request or with the concurrence of the
Parliaments of all the States and, subject to section 15(3) of
each of those Acts, only in that manner.
The Parliament of Victoria therefore enacts as follows:
1. Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to request the
amendment of the Australia Acts 1986 in
connection with proposed constitutional
5 arrangements to establish the Commonwealth of
Australia as a republic.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day after the
day on which the Constitution Alteration
10 (Establishment of Republic) 1999 of the
Commonwealth receives the Royal Assent.
3. Request for amendment of Australia Acts 1986
The Parliament of the State requests the enactment
by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of an Act
15 in, or substantially in, the terms set out in the
Schedule.
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SCHEDULE
An Act to amend section 7 of the Australia Act 1986 of the
Commonwealth and section 7 of the Australia Act 1986 of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
5 The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Australia Acts Amendment Act
1999.
2 Commencement
10 (1) This Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.
(2) That day must not be before the day on which the
Constitution Alteration (Establishment of Republic) 1999
receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
15 Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is
amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the
Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this
Act has effect according to its terms.
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SCHEDULE 1--Australia Act 1986 of the Commonwealth
1. At the end of section 7
Add:
(6) The Parliament of a State may make a law providing that the
5 preceding subsections do not apply to the State.
(7) Upon the coming into effect in a State of a law referred to in
subsection (6), this section ceases to apply to the State as
provided by that law.
SCHEDULE 2--Australia Act 1986 of the Parliament of the United
10 Kingdom
1. Amendment of Imperial Act
The Australia Act 1986 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is
amended as set out in this Schedule, so far as that Act is part of the law
of Australia or of an external Territory.
15 2. At the end of section 7
Add:
(6) The Parliament of a State may make a law providing that the
preceding subsections do not apply to the State.
(7) Upon the coming into effect in a State of a law referred to in
20 subsection (6), this section ceases to apply to the State as
provided by that law.
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By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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