Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Amendment Act 1979 (Cth)

Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Amendment Act 1979

No. 38 of 1979

An Act to amend the Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Act 1977.

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

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Amendment Act 1979.

(2) The Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Act 1977is 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.

Acceptance of appointment as Ambassador-at-large

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2) In paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), a reference to the appointment of the Honourable Russell Walter Fox as Ambassador-at-large as referred to in that sub-section shall be read as, and as having been at all times, a reference to the term of his appointment as such Ambassador-at-large and of any extension or extensions of the term of that appointment, whether effected before or after the commencement of this sub-section.”.