Bill
Statute Update (A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2017-02-22. Infrastructure and Regional Development portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure and Regional Development
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-11-30
- second reading — 2016-11-30
- second reading — 2017-02-07
- second reading — 2017-02-07
- third reading — 2017-02-07
- introduced — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- third reading — 2017-02-09
- passed — 2017-02-09
- royal assent — 2017-02-22
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2016-11-30.
This bill would update 18 federal Acts across nine portfolios to include changes originally made by a set of regulations after the ACT became self-governing.
It would move modifications from subordinate legislation into the primary Acts, without altering the law's policy intent or effect.
For example, the bill would add the ACT to the definition of a State in the Disability Services Act 1986.
- The bill would incorporate outstanding modifications from the ASGR into 18 Acts.
- It would allow the repeal of Schedule 1 and Regulation 2 of the ASGR.
- The bill would simplify the legislative framework by moving rules from subordinate to primary legislation.
Users of the law who need to interpret and apply the affected Acts, and the ACT Government which was consulted.
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