Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Act 1989 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Ordinance 1989

Ordinance No. 56 of 1989

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 14 July 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1982

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Ordinance 1989.1

Commencement

2.  Section 3 shall be deemed to have commenced on 11 May 1989.

Rules of Court

3.  Section 307A of the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 19822  is amended—

(a)by omitting “Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1951” and substituting “Workmen’s Compensation Act 1951 of the Territory”;

(b)by omitting “that Ordinance” (wherever occurring) and substituting “that Act”; and

(c)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(2)  The rules in force under the Workmen’s Compensation Act 1951 of the Territory immediately before the commencement of this section continue in force on and after the commencement as if they had been made under subsection (1).”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 July 1989.

2. No. 54, 1982 as amended by Nos. 76 and 77, 1984; Nos. 9 and 67, 1985; Nos. 14, 53 and 74, 1986; No. 13, 1987; No. 81, 1988; No. 38, 1989.