Metropolitan District Council of the Australian Labor Party Act of 1947 (11 Geo Vi) (Qld)

330 AGRICULTURE—LABOR PARTY. PART VI.— GENERAL. Metropolitan, Etc., Australian Labor Party Act. 11 GEO. VI. (d) Be laid before Parliament within fourteen sitting days after publication if Parliament is in session, and if not, then within fourteen sitting days after the commencement of the next session. (2.) If Parliament passes a resolution of which notice has been given at any time within fourteen sitting days after an Order in Council or regulation has been laid before Parliament disallowing that Order in Council or regulation or part thereof, the Order in Council or regulation or part shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime. For the purposes of this paragraph the term "sitting days" shall mean days on which Parliament actually sits for the despatch of business. LABOR PARTY. I.I. GEO. VI. An Act to Transfer to and Vest in Trustees upon METRO- Trust for the Australian Labor Party (State DISTRICT COUNCIL Or THE of Queensland) certain Moneys in the AUSTRALIAN LABOUR Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia at PARTY ACT or 1947. Brisbane to which the said Party is entitled. [ASSENTED TO 6TH NOVEMBER, 1947.] Preamble. W HEREAS there is in the Savings Bank Department of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia at Brisbane a sum of money amounting, on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, to one thousand three hundred and twenty-five pounds ten shillings and eleven pence to the credit of an account numbered S 1661 and called the Metropolitan District Labour Council Queensland Labor Club Account whereof Henry Bond and Archibald Bowman are named in the records of the said Bank as trustees : And whereas such money is rightly the property of the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) in that it consists in part of sums of money deposited in the said Bank by an organisation within and forming

1947. LABOR PARTY. Metropolitan, Etc., Australian Labor Party Act. part of the said Party, and charged with the function of promoting and aiding the said Party, its aims and objects, called the Metropolitan District Council of the said Party (the said Party being formerly called the Queensland Labor Party) and partly of interest earned from time to time by such sums: And whereas the rules of the Metropolitan District Council provided for its constitution by two representa- tives elected annually by certain Branches of and Unions affiliated with the said Party: And whereas the supreme governing authority of the said Party is and always was a Convention constituted from time to time by representatives of all Branches of and Unions affiliated with the said Party in Queensland: And whereas the eleventh such Convention which commenced its sittings at Emu Park in this State on the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, resolved that the Metropolitan District Council be abolished: And whereas such resolution being binding on all Branches of and Unions affiliated with the said Party, such and so many of such Branches and Unions as were thereunto authorised by the rules of the Metropolitan District Council never elected representatives to con- stitute the Metropolitan District Council for any year subsequent to the passing of such resolution although it has never been formally dissolved according to its rules: And whereas the abovementioned Henry Bond and Archibald Bowman have both died: And whereas it is expedient in the circumstances that the money hereinbef ore mentioned should be made available to the said Party for the purpose specified in this Act— Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- 1. This Act may be cited as The Metropolitan Short title. District Council of the Australian Labor Party Act of 1947."

332 LABOR PARTY. Metropolitan, Etc., Australian Labor Party Act. 11 GEO. VI. 1947. Transfer of 2. (1.) Upon the passing of this Act the moneys to 1 S 1 a 1 v °1 i 1 n °Yg8s in the credit of the Metropolitan District Labour Council Bank Queensland Labor Club Account number S 1661 in the DoCfoemtphamertomn-ent SoafvAinugsstrBaalinakaDt eBprairstbmaennet o( cf othmepCroisminmgobnowtehalmthoBnaenyks wBAaeunasklttrhaolfia at adnedpoinsitteerdesftreoamrnteidmbeytosutcimh emtoontehyes)csrhedalilt, oafs sfurocmh athcecoduantet cBthrreeidsbitaonfe to ocof nsvuecyhapncaes, sitnragn, safnerd, obryavsisritgunemoefntthbise Adicvte, swteidthforoumt atnhye LDMaiesbttorroiucprtolitan tsrhuasltlevesesotfinsutchhe atwccooupnertsaonnds s(hhaelrlebineatfrtaenrsrfeefrerrerdedtotoanads CQLoaubueonenrcisCllalunbd r"etshpeecstaiivdeltyruthsetepeossi"tio) nfoorf tPhreestiidmenet banedintgheopcocsuitpioyninogf account. Secretary of the Queensland Central Executive of the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) upon trust for the said Party. (2.) The receipt of the said trustees shall be a good and sufficient discharge to the said Bank for such moneys or any part thereof and the said Bank shall not be bound or required to see to the application nor be affected by the mis-application or non-application of all or any part of such moneys by the said trustees and/or by the said Queensland Central Executive and/or by the said Party. (3.) The said Queensland Central Executive shall cause such moneys to be applied, and the said trustees shall subject as directed by the said Queensland Central Executive apply such moneys in and towards defraying the capital expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) in erecting and establishing the wireless broadcasting station known as 4KQ. Interpreta 3. In this Act the Savings Bank Department of the tion. Commonwealth Bank of Australia means the Common- wealth Savings Bank of Australia.