Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No. 4) 1950 (WA)

CONSTITUTION (No. 4).

14° and 15° Geo. VI., No. LXIII.

No. 63 of 1950.

AN ACT to amend section forty-six of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899-1950, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 29th December, 1950.]

RE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No. 4), 1950, and shall be read	Short title.
as one with the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899-1950 (Act No. 19 of 1899, as amended by Acts Nos. 21 of 1904, 6 and 31 of 1911, 34 of 1921, 25 of 1927, 1 and 26 of 1929, 25 of 1933, 40 of 1934, 29 of 1942, 52 of 1945, 2, 4 and 52 of 1947, 12 of 1948,

17 of 1949, 2 of 1950 and of 1950), hereinafter

referred to as the principal Act.

No. 63.] Constitution (No. 4). [1950.

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amended. 2. Section forty-six of the principal Act is

amended by adding thereto a subsection as follows:

(9) No infringement or non-observance of any provision of this section shall be held to affect the validity of any Act assented to by the Governor at any time prior to the thirty- first day of January, 1951.

Validation of

All Bills passed by both the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly in the session of The Parliament of Western Australia held during the year 1950, may, notwithstanding the infringement or non-observance of any of the provisions of section forty-six of the principal Act, be lawfully assented to by the Governor: Provided that nothing in this section shall derogate from any law or Royal instruc- tion by or under which the Governor is required to reserve any Bill for His Majesty's assent.

certain Bills. 3.