Commercial Arbitration (Amendment) Act 1990 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Commercial Arbitration (Amendment) Act 1990

No. 32 of 1990

An Act to amend the Commercial Arbitration Act 1986 and to amend 2 other Acts in consequence

[Notified in ACT Gazette S69:  2 October 1990]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Commercial Arbitration (Amendment) Act 1990.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Section 1, this section and section 6 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2) Sections 3, 4 and 5 commence on the date of commencement of Rules of Court (under section 28 of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court Act 1933 of the Commonwealth) made for the purposes of section 3 of the Supreme Court (Arbitration) Ordinance 1990.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Commercial Arbitration Act 1986.1

Repeal, transitional and application

4.  Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsections:

“(1) The Arbitration Act 1902 of the State of New South Wales ceases to be in force in the Territory.

“(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to proceedings in which an order under Part III of the Arbitration Act 1902 of the State of New South Wales in its application in the Territory has been made before the date of commencement of section 4 of the Commercial Arbitration (Amendment) Act 1990.”.

New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984

5. (1) Schedule 1 to the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984 is amended by omitting from Column 1 “Arbitration Act 1902”.

(2) Schedule 2 to the New South Wales Acts Application Act 1984 is amended by omitting Part 3.

Limitation Act 1985

6. Section 50 of the Limitation Act 1985 is repealed.

NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 84, 1986 as amended by No. 17, 1988; Nos. 21 and 38, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 12 September 1990.]

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