Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY ACT 1984 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Edith Cowan University Act 1984 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^1a. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Western Australian College of Advanced Education Act 1984 7	18 of 1984	31 May 1984	1 Sep 1984 (see s. 2 and Gazette 24 Aug 1984 p. 2567)
Acts Amendment (Educational Institutions Superannuation) Act 1985 Pt. III 8	77 of 1985 (as amended by No. 63 of 1990 s. 22)	20 Nov 1985	16 Dec 1985 (see s. 2 and Gazette 13 Dec 1985 p. 4758)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Post-Secondary Education) Act 1989 Pt. 8	48 of 1989	9 Jan 1990	1 Jan 1990 (see s. 2)
Western Australian College of Advanced Education Amendment Act 1990	63 of 1990	17 Dec 1990	1 Jan 1991 (see s. 2)
Reprint of the Edith Cowan University Act 1984 as at 16 May 1991 (includes amendments listed above)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1991 Pt. 3	32 of 1991	4 Dec 1991	1 Jan 1992
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Voluntary Membership of Student Guilds and Associations Act 1994 Pt. 4	91 of 1994	5 Jan 1995	5 Jan 1995 (see s. 2)
Industrial Legislation Amendment Act 1995 s. 35	1 of 1995	9 May 1995	1 Jan 1996 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 24 Nov 1995 p. 5389)
Sentencing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1995 Pt. 25	78 of 1995	16 Jan 1996	4 Nov 1996 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Oct 1996 p. 5632)
Education Amendment Act 1996 s. 16(4)	22 of 1996	11 Jul 1996	11 Jul 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996 s. 53 and 64	49 of 1996	25 Oct 1996	25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 Pt. 22	31 of 1997	3 Oct 1997	30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1998 s. 30 9	10 of 1998	30 Apr 1998	30 Apr 1998 (see s. 2(1))
Reprint of the Edith Cowan University Act 1984 as at 1 Oct 1999 (includes amendments listed above)
School Education Act 1999 s. 247	36 of 1999	2 Nov 1999	1 Jan 2001 (see s. 2 and Gazette 29 Dec 2000 p. 7904)
Acts Amendment (Student Guilds and Associations) Act 2002 Pt. 3	44 of 2002	3 Jan 2003	25 Jan 2003 (see s. 2 and Gazette 24 Jan 2003 p. 141)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Competition Policy) Act 2003 Pt. 7	70 of 2003	15 Dec 2003	21 Apr 2004 (see s. 2 and Gazette 20 Apr 2004 p. 1297)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003 s. 46 10	74 of 2003	15 Dec 2003	15 Dec 2003 (see s. 2)
Reprint 3: The Edith Cowan University Act 1984 as at 20 Aug 2004 (includes amendments listed above)
Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004 s. 80	84 of 2004	16 Dec 2004	2 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7129 (correction in Gazette 7 Jan 2005 p. 53))
Universities Legislation Amendment Act 2005 Pt. 3 11	8 of 2005	7 Jul 2005	13 Aug 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 12 Aug 2005 p. 3651)
Reprint 4: The Edith Cowan University Act 1984 as at 11 Aug 2006 (includes amendments listed above)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4 and 17	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)

Acts Amendment (Bankruptcy) Act 2009 s. 33

18 of 2009

16 Sep 2009

17 Sep 2009 (see s. 2(b))

^1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 40 12	43 of 2000	2 Nov 2000	To be proclaimed (see s. 2(2))

² Repealed by the School Education Act 1999.

³ Under the Teacher Education Act 1972 s. 57, the appointed day was 26 November 1973. See Gazette 23 November 1973 p. 4266. The Act was repealed by the Colleges Act 1978 s. 5.

⁴ Repealed by the Vocational Education and Training Act 1996.

⁵ The Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938 was repealed by the State Superannuation Act 2000 s. 39 but its provisions continue to apply to and in relation to certain schemes because of the State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 26 and those provisions may be amended by regulations under subsection (3) of that section.

⁶ Repealed by the State Superannuation Act 2000 (see also endnote 12).

⁷ Now known as the Edith Cowan University Act 1984; short title changed (see note under s. 1).

⁸ The Acts Amendment (Educational Institutions Superannuation) Act 1985 s. 14 and 15 read as follows:

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14. Rights of contributors to The Superannuation Fund and the Western Australian Post Secondary Education Superannuation Scheme

(1) Notwithstanding section 13, where a member of the staff of the University was, immediately before the coming into operation of that section — 

(a) a contributor for pension, superannuation or benefits under an agreement entered into by the Council under section 35 of the Colleges Act as incorporated by section 34 of the principal Act as in force before the coming into operation of section 13, he shall be entitled to continue to be such a contributor and to retain his accrued rights under the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938; or

(b) a member of the Western Australian Post Secondary Education Superannuation Scheme established under section 36 of the Colleges Act as incorporated by section 34 of the principal Act as in force before the coming into operation of section 13, he shall be entitled to continue to be such a member and to retain his accrued rights under that superannuation scheme.

15. Rights and liabilities of the Council not affected

Nothing in section 13 affects any rights or liabilities of the Council under an agreement entered into by the Council under section 35 of the Colleges Act as incorporated by section 34 of the principal Act as in force before the coming into operation of section 13.

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⁹ The Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1998 s. 30(2) reads as follows:

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(2) Despite subsection (1)(a), each person appointed and holding office as a member of the Council of the University under section 9(1)(a) of the Act immediately before the commencement of this section continues, subject to the Act, to hold office as a member for the remainder of the period for which he or she was appointed.

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¹⁰ The Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003 s. 46(5) reads as follows:

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(5) A person holding office as the chairperson or a member of the Bunbury Campus Advisory Board immediately before the commencement day continues to hold office on and after that day, subject to the Statute of the University under which the person was appointed, as the chairperson or a member of the ECU South West Campus (Bunbury) Advisory Board, as the case requires, for the remainder of the period for which he or she was appointed to the Bunbury Campus Advisory Board.

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¹¹ The Universities Legislation Amendment Act 2005 s. 16 reads as follows:

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16. Transitional provision

(1) In this section —

commencement day means the day on which the Universities Legislation Amendment Act 2005 comes into operation;

deleted section 9(1)(g) or (h) means the Edith Cowan University Act 1984 section 9(1)(g) or (h) as those provisions were in effect immediately before commencement day;

member means a member of the Council of the Edith Cowan University.

(2) The persons who, immediately before commencement day, were members under deleted section 9(1)(g) or (h) cease to be members on commencement day.

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¹² On the date on which this compilation was prepared, the State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 40 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

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40. Edith Cowan University Act 1984 amended

The Edith Cowan University Act 1984 is amended as follows:

(a) in section 32(1) by deleting “, retirement and his rights if any under the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938.” and inserting instead —

“ and retirement. ”;

(b) by repealing section 32(2);

(c) in section 34(3) by deleting “contributor for pension, superannuation or benefits under the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938.” and inserting instead —

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Member of a superannuation scheme continued by section 29(c) or (d) of the State Superannuation Act 2000.

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