AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL TERRITORY
REPRESENTATION
(HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES)
ACT 1974
No.
8 of 1974
An Act relating to
the Representation in the House of Representatives of the Australian Capital
Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory.
BE IT
ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia,
as follows:—
Short
title.
1.This
Act may be cited as the Australian Capital Territory Representation (House
of Representatives) Act 1974.
Commencement
2. (1) This Act
shall come into operation as provided by sub-section (2) and not otherwise.
(2) If
the House of Representatives is dissolved before a Proclamation has been made
under section 17 of the Australian Capital Territory Representation (House
of Representatives) Acts 1973, this Act shall come into operation on the
day on which the House of Representatives is so dissolved.
Definition.
3.In this
Act—
“the Territory”
means the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory.
Electoral
Divisions.
4. (1) For the
purposes of the Australian Capital Territory Representation (House of
Representatives) Acts 1973, the areas having the boundaries described in
Part 1and Part 2 respectively of the Schedule to this Act (being the
Electoral Divisions proposed, in accordance with section 10 of that Act, by the Distribution
Committee appointed on 18 December 1973) shall be the two Electoral Divisions
of the Territory as if they were Electoral Divisions duly made in accordance
with subsection 6 (2) of that Act, approved by both Houses of the Parliament
and proclaimed by the Governor-General in accordance with that Act before the
commencement of this Act.
(2) As
soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, the Governor-General
shall, by Proclamation, declare the names of the Electoral Divisions
established by this Act.
(3) Nothing in this Act prevents the
re-division of the Territory in accordance with the Australian Capital
Territory Representation (House of Representatives) Acts 1973.
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SCHEDULE Section
4
PART 1.
Division
A
1.That
part of the boundary of the Australian Capital Territory commencing at One Tree
Trigonometrical Station and running generally northeasterly southeasterly
southerly and westerly to its intersection with the generally northern bank of
the Molonglo River thence by that bank of that river generally westerly to its
intersection with the generally northern bank of Lake Burley Griffin (being
that part of the City of Canberra that is Lake Burley Griffin for the purposes
of the Lake Burley Griffin Ordinance 1965) thence generally westerly
along the generally northern bank of Lake Burley Griffin to the generally
northeastern bank of the Molonglo River thence generally northwesterly to its
intersection with the generally eastern bank of the Murrumbidgee River thence bythat bank of that river
generally northerly to its intersection with the northwestern part of the
boundary of the Australian Capital Territory thence northeasterly to the point
of commencement.
2.The boundaries of the Jervis Bay
Territory as described in the Schedule to the Jervis Bay Territory
Acceptance Act 1915.
PART 2.
Division
B
That
part of the boundary of the Australian Capital Territory commencing at Coree
Trigonometrical Station and running northeasterly to its intersection with the
generally eastern bank of the Murrumbidgee River thence generally easterly by
the boundary of Division A along the Murrumbidgee River the Molonglo River Lake
Burley Griffin and the Molonglo River to the intersection of that boundary with
the boundary of the Australian Capital Territory thence by that boundary
generally southwesterly southerly westerly southerly northwesterly southerly
and northerly to the point of commencement
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