Interpretation Amendment (Australia Acts) Act 1994 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

INTERPRETATION AMENDMENT

(AUSTRALIA ACTS) ACT 1994

No. 85 of 1994

AN ACT to amend the Interpretation Act 1984.

[Assented to 20 December 1994.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Interpretation Amendment

(Australia Acts) Act 1994.

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Act 1994

Commencement

2. This Act is deemed to have come into operation immediately

after the commencement of the Australia Acts.

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Interpretation Act 1984* is referred to as the

principal Act.

[* Reprinted as at 4 November 1992.

For subsequent amendments see Act No. 6 of 1993.]

Section 5 amended

4. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

the definition of "Australia" the following definition —

"Australia Acts" means —

(a)	the Australia Act 1986 of the Commonwealth; and
(b)	the Australia Act 1986 of the United Kingdom;

Section 76A inserted

5. After section 76 of the principal Act the following section is

inserted —

Declaration of validity of certain laws

76A. (1) Each provision of an Act or subsidiary legislation enacted or made, or purporting to have

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been enacted or made, before the commencement of

the Australia Acts —

(a)	has the same effect as it would have had; and
(b)	is as valid as it would have been,

if the Australia Acts had been in operation at the time of its enactment or making, or purported enactment or making.

(2) Subsection (1) is not intended to, and is not to

be given effect so as to —

(a)	invalidate any enactment that was valid immediately before the commencement of the Australia Acts; or
(b)	invalidate any Act because it was assented to by the Sovereign rather than the Governor.