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2002-2003
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Aboriginal
Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Amendment Bill
2003
No. ,
2003
(Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986, and for
related purposes
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Grant
(Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay
Territory) Amendment Act 2003.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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.
1 Subsection 2(1)
Insert:
Agency has the meaning given by section 7 of the
Public Service Act 1999.
2 Subsection 2(1)
Insert:
Agency Head has the meaning given by
section 7 of the Public Service Act 1999.
3 Subsection 2(1)
Insert:
Agency Minister has the meaning given by
section 7 of the Public Service Act 1999.
4 Subsection 2(1)
Insert:
APS employee has the meaning given by section 7 of the
Public Service Act 1999.
5 Subsection 15(3)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(3) The Registrar is to be a person who is appointed by the Minister in
writing and who:
(a) is an APS employee in an Agency for which the Minister is the Agency
Minister; or
(b) holds or performs the duties of an office in a body established by or
under an Act administered by the Minister.
6 Paragraphs 16(1)(a) and (b)
Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:
(a) an APS employee in an Agency for which the Minister is the Agency
Minister, being an APS employee approved for the purpose by the Agency Head;
or
(b) a person holding or performing the duties of an office in a body
established by or under an Act administered by the Minister, being a person
approved for the purpose by the person in charge of the body;
7 Subsection 26A(1)
Omit “an annual general meeting”, substitute “a general
meeting”.
Note: The heading to section 26A is altered by omitting
“AGM” and substituting “general
meetings”.
8 Paragraph 26A(1)(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) at the reconvened meeting, a quorum is constituted by 40 registered
members.
9 Subsection 26A(2)
Omit “an annual general meeting”, substitute “a general
meeting”.
10 Paragraph 26A(2)(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) at the reconvened meeting, a quorum is constituted by 40 registered
members.
11 Subsection 26A(4)
Omit “annual general meeting”, substitute “general
meeting”.
12 Subsection 52A(10)
Omit “7 days”, substitute “21 days”.
13 Application
(1) The amendments made by items 7 to 11 apply to meetings (including
reconvened meetings) held after the commencement of this item.
(2) The amendment made by item 12 applies to by-laws made:
(a) after the commencement of this item; or
(b) within 7 days before the commencement of this item.
14 Amendments not to affect validity of certain
appointments and delegations
To avoid doubt, if:
(a) disregarding the amendments made by items 1 to 6 of this
Schedule, an appointment under section 15, or a delegation under
section 16, of the Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act
1986 is in force when this Act commences; and
(b) such an appointment or delegation could validly have been made when
this Act commences under the Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act
1986 as amended by those items;
the amendments made by those items do not affect the validity of the
appointment or delegation.