Administration (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Administration (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 17 of 1991

An Act to amend the Administration Act 1989

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 36: 10 May 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Administration (Amendment) Act 1991.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Administration Act 1989.1

Insertion

3.  After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Exercise of powers of Executive

“3A.  (1)  Where an Act confers a power or imposes a duty on the Executive, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by any 2 Ministers, being members of the Executive, acting in concert.

“(2)  The exercise of a power or the performance of a duty by 2 Ministers in accordance with subsection (1) shall, for all purposes, be taken to be the exercise of that power or the performance of that duty by the Executive.

“(3)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), where, by an Act, the Executive is empowered or required to execute or make any instrument (however described), it is sufficient if the instrument is signed by any 2 Ministers who are members of the Executive.”.

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NOTE

1.  Ordinance No. 41, 1989 as amended by No. 21, 1989; Act No. 5, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 18 April 1991]

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