Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Act 2002 (Cth)

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Act 2002

No. 22, 2002

An Act to amend the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, and for related purposes

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Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Act 2002

No. 22, 2002

An Act to amend the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, and for related purposes

[Assented to 4 April 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Amendment Act 2002.

2Commencement

This Act is taken to have commenced on 13 April 2000.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

1

After subsection 6(1)

Insert:

1. (1A)

   Part IIB binds the Crown in right of the States.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 21 February 2002

Senate on 13 March 2002]