Defence (Re-establishment) Amendment Act 1985 (Cth)

Defence (Re-establishment) Amendment Act 1985

No. 54 of 1985

An Act to amend the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965

[Assented to 4 June 1985]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Defence (Re-establishment) Amendment Act 1985.

(2) The Defence (Re-establishment) Act 19651is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section 50 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Application

“50a. This Part does not authorize a prescribed authority, a bank, a State or an authority of a State to make a loan, to guarantee the repayment of a loan

 

or of interest on a loan or to make property available unless an application for the making of the loan, for the giving of the guarantee or for the making of the property available was received by the prescribed authority, the bank, the State or the authority of the State, as the case may be, on or before 14 May 1985.”.

NOTE

1. No. 54, 1965, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; No. 89, 1967; No. 10. 1968; Nos. 101 and 216, 1973; No. 96, 1975; No. 155, 1979; No. 70, 1980; No. 61, 1981; Nos. 98 and 153, 1982; and Nos. 76 and 165, 1984.

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 14 May 1985

Senate on 22 May 1985