Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1899 - SECT 42

42 .         Power to amend Schedule V

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), the Governor may, by Order in Council, amend Schedule V.

        (2)         An Order in Council shall be made under this section if and only if the making of that Order has been recommended by resolution passed by both Houses of the Legislature.

        (3)         An Order in Council made under this section shall take and have effect — 

            (a)         in the case of an Order adding an office to Part 1 of Schedule V, or adding an office or place to Part 2 of Schedule V or adding a commission, council, board, committee, authority, trust or other body to Part 3 of Schedule V — at and from the expiration of 30 days from the day on which the Order is published in the Government Gazette ; or

            (b)         in the case of any other Order — on and from the day on which the Order is published in the Government Gazette .

        (4)         The Clerk of the Parliaments shall keep in his custody a copy of every Order in Council made under this section.

        [Section 42 inserted by No. 78 of 1984 s. 12.]