Federal Council Reference Act 1886 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO

VICTORUP, REGIME

No. 29

An Act to refer certain matters to the Federal Council of

Australasia. [Assented to 2nd September, 1886.

HEREAS under and by virtue of an Act made and passed in a Session of the Legislative Council held in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, numbered twenty-four, and entitled An Act to bring into operation, in respect of the Colony of Western Australia, an Act of the Imperial Parlia- ment entitled " An Act to Constitute a Federal Council of Australasia,"' the said last-mentioned Act is now in force in respect of the said Colony ; and whereas it is desirable to refer certain matters to the Federal Council of Australasia, constituted by such last-mentioned Act : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

Preamble

1. In pursuance of the provisions of the said Act of the Imperial Parliament, the following matters are hereby referred to the Federal

Reference to

Federal Council

of certain

Council of Australasia, to the intent that so soon as the Legislature or

matters

Legislatures of another Colony, or other Colonies of Australasia, shall have referred the same matters respectively to the Council, the said Council may exercise legislative authority in respect of such matters, and that the Acts of the said Council relating to them respectively shall be in force in Western Australia, that is to say :—

The status of Corporations and Joint Stock Companies in other matterareferr ed

Colonies than that in which they have been constituted.

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The Federal Council Reference Act, 1886

The trial and punishment in one Colony of offenders against

the Laws of an adjoining Colony.

The general Defence of King George's Sound.

The general Defence of Thursday Island.

Short title 2. This Act may be cited as The Federal Council Reference Act,

1886.'

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.