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Western Australia
Retail Trading Hours Amendment
(Referendums) Bill 2004
CONTENTS
1. Short title 1
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Section 43 inserted 2
354--2 page i
Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
(As amended in Committee)
Retail Trading Hours Amendment
(Referendums) Bill 2004
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Retail Trading Hours Act 1987 to provide for
two questions relating to retail trading hours to be submitted to the
electors under the Referendums Act 1983.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Retail Trading Hours Amendment
(Referendums) Act 2004.
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s. 2
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.
3. The Act amended
5 The amendment in this Act is to the Retail Trading Hours
Act 1987*.
[* Reprinted as at 18 January 2002.]
4. Section 43 inserted
After section 42 the following section is inserted --
10 "
43. Referendums on trading hours
(1) In this section --
"day of the next general election" means the day
fixed under the Electoral Act 1907 as the polling
15 day for the first general election for the Legislative
Assembly to be held after the Retail Trading
Hours Amendment (Referendums) Act 2004 comes
into operation;
"electors" has the meaning given to that term in
20 section 2(1) of the Referendums Act 1983.
(2) Questions 1 and 2 set out in subsection (3) are to be
submitted to the electors under and in accordance with
the Referendums Act 1983 on the day of the next
general election.
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(3) The questions to be submitted to the electors are --
(a) question 1:
"
Extended week night shopping
5 Do you believe that the Western Australian
community would benefit if trading hours in
the Perth Metropolitan Area were extended to
allow general retail shops to trade until 9 pm
Monday to Friday?
10 ";
and
(b) question 2:
"
Extended Sunday shopping
15 Do you believe that the Western Australian
community would benefit if trading hours in the
Perth Metropolitan Area were extended to
allow general retail shops to trade for 6 hours
on Sunday?
20 ".
(4) When an elector is voting at the referendum as to
question 1 --
(a) if the elector believes that the Western
Australian community would benefit if trading
25 hours in the Perth Metropolitan Area were
extended to allow general retail shops to trade
until 9 pm Monday to Friday, the elector is to
place the word "Yes" in the space provided on
the ballot paper for the answer to that question;
30 or
(b) if the elector does not believe that the Western
Australian community would benefit if trading
hours in the Perth Metropolitan Area were
extended to allow general retail shops to trade
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s. 4
until 9 pm Monday to Friday, the elector is to
place the word "No" in the space provided on
the ballot paper for the answer to that question.
(5) When an elector is voting at the referendum as to
5 question 2 --
(a) if the elector believes that the Western
Australian community would benefit if trading
hours in the Perth Metropolitan Area were
extended to allow general retail shops to trade
10 for 6 hours on Sunday, the elector is to place
the word "Yes" in the space provided on the
ballot paper for the answer to that question; or
(b) if the elector does not believe that the Western
Australian community would benefit if trading
15 hours in the Perth Metropolitan Area were
extended to allow general retail shops to trade
for 6 hours on Sunday, the elector is to place
the word "No" in the space provided on the
ballot paper for the answer to that question.
20 ".
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