Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1993 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1993

No. 41 of 1993

An Act to amend the Interpretation Act 1967

[Notified in ACT Gazette S165:  27 August 1993]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1993.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Interpretation Act 1967.1

Insertion

4.  Before section 11A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 1 of Part III:

Construction of Acts—legislative powers of the Assembly

“11AA.  (1)  An Act shall be construed as operating to the full extent of, but so as not to exceed, the legislative power of the Legislative Assembly.

“(2)  If a provision of an Act, or the application of such a provision to a person, subject-matter or circumstance, would, but for this section, be construed as being in excess of the legislative power of the Legislative Assembly, it shall be a valid provision to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power.”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1991.  See also Acts Nos. 9 and 23, 1992 and Nos. 1 and 43, 1993.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 17 June 1993]

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