Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FOREST PRODUCTS ACT 2000 - SECT 69

69 .         Supplementary provision about laying documents before Parliament

        (1)         If —

            (a)         at the commencement of a period referred to in section 14(3), 19(5), 24(5), 27(4), 33(5), 35(2), 36(4) or 58A(5) or Schedule 1 clause 20(2) in respect of a document a House of Parliament is not sitting; and

            (b)         the Minister is of the opinion that that House will not sit during that period,

                the Minister is to transmit a copy of the document to the Clerk of that House.

        (2)         A copy of a document transmitted to the Clerk of a House is taken to have been laid before that House.

        (3)         The laying of a copy of a document that is taken to have occurred under subsection (2) is to be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the first sitting day of the House after the Clerk received the copy.

        [Section 69 amended by No. 50 of 2004 s. 9; No. 8 of 2009 s. 62(2) and (3).]