Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1973
No. 134 of 1973
AN ACT
To make provision with respect to the Liability
in relation to Air Accidents of certain Authorities of Territories.
[Assented to 13 November 1973]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the
House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title
and citation.
1. (1) This
Act may be cited as the Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1973.
(2) The Air
Accidents (Commonwealth Liability) Act 1963-1971 is in this Act referred
to as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Air Accidents (Australian Government Liability) Act 1963-1973.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Definitions.
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by
adding at the end of the definition of “Commonwealth authority” the words “, and
includes a body corporate that is incorporated for a public purpose by a law of
a Territory and is declared by the regulations to be a body corporate in
relation to which this Act applies”.
Formal
amendments.
4. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the
Schedule.
SCHEDULE Section
4
The following provisions of the Principal Act
are amended by omitting any number expressed in words that is used, whether
with or without the addition of a letter, to identify a section of that Act or
of another Act, and substituting that number expressed in figures:—
Sections
7, 9(1), 10(3), 13 and 15(3).