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TOBACCO CONTROL AMENDMENT BILL 1998

                    WESTERN AUSTRALIA


                  LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY




                (Introduced by Dr Geoff Gallop)




          TOBACCO CONTROL
         AMENDMENT BILL 1998
                         A BILL FOR



      AN ACT to amend the Tobacco Control Act 1990.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




                          No. 127 -- 1
 
 
                              Tobacco Control Amendment Bill 1998
cl. 1

        Short title

        1. This Act may be cited as the Tobacco Control Amendment
        Act 1998.


        Commencement

 5      2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it
        receives the Royal Assent.


        Principal Act

        3. In this Act the Tobacco Control Act 1990* is referred to as
        the principal Act.

10           [* Act No. 104 of 1990.
                For subsequent amendments, see 1996 Index to Legislation
                of Western Australia, p. 228.]


        Section 26 amended

        4. Section 26 of the principal Act is amended by deleting
15      subsection (2) and substituting the following --

        ``
                  (2)     There shall be paid to the Foundation --

                        (a)     in respect of the financial year commencing
                                1 July 1998 an amount of $16.9 million;
20                              and

                        (b)     in respect of each subsequent financial year
                                an amount of $16.9 million adjusted to
                                reflect any increase in the Consumer Price
                                Index, All Groups Index number for Perth,
25                              published from time to time by the
                                Commonwealth Statistician under the



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           Tobacco Control Amendment Bill 1998
                                                              cl. 4

             Census And Statistics Act 1905 of the
             Commonwealth,

    and this subsection appropriates the Consolidated
    Fund accordingly.
5                                                       ''.




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