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1996
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Flags Amendment Bill
1996
No. ,
1996
(Administrative
Services)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Flags Act 1953
Contents
A Bill for an Act to
amend the Flags Act
1953
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Flags Amendment Act 1996.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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 At the end of section 3
Add:
(2) The blue flag referred to in subsection (1) ceases to be the
Australian National Flag if, and only if:
(a) a new flag or flags, and the flag referred to in subsection (1), are
submitted in each State and Territory to the electors qualified to vote for the
election of members of the House of Representatives; and
(b) the new flag, or one of the new flags, is chosen by a majority of all
the electors voting.
(3) The form and manner in which a proposal for a new Australian National
Flag is submitted to electors, and the manner in which a vote on the proposal is
taken (which may include the adoption of a form of preferential voting for
choosing among 3 or more flags), and arrangements for adopting a new flag as the
Australian National Flag if chosen as mentioned in subsection (2), are to be as
the Parliament prescribes.
(4) In this section:
Territory means any Territory referred to in section 122 of
the Constitution in respect of which there is in force a law allowing its
representation in the House of Representatives.