Mount Stromlo Observatory Act 1956 (Cth)

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT2 CHAP 191 #DATE 19:12:1973)

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 
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                  MOUNT  STROMLO  OBSERVATORY  ACT  1956-1973



                             TABLE  OF  PROVISIONS

Section

  1.        Short title

  2.        Commencement

  3.        Repeal

  4.        Definitions

  5.        Arrangement for transfer of Observatory

  6.        Powers of Minister

  7.        Rights of officers



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MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 1. 
Short title. 
SECT

Mount Stromlo in the Australian Capital Territory to The Australian National
University, and for other purposes.

Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.

  1. This Act may be cited as the Mount Stromlo Observatory Act 1956-1973.*

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 2. 
Commencement. 
SECT

  2.* (1) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, this Act shall come into
operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

  (2) Section three of this Act shall come into operation on a date* to be
fixed by Proclamation, being a date not earlier than the date on which the
administration of the Observatory is transferred to the University in
pursuance of an arrangement under section five of this Act.

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 3. 
Repeal. 
SECT

  3. (1) The Commonwealth Observatory Trust Fund Act 1953 is repealed.

  (2) Upon the commencement of this section, the moneys which, immediately
before that commencement, stood to the credit of the Commonwealth Observatory
Trust Fund established under the Act repealed by this section, and the
investments representing any of those moneys, shall be paid or transferred to
the University.

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 4. 
Definitions. 
SECT

Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.

  4. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-



  ''the Observatory'' means the observatory situated at Mount Stromlo in the
Australian Capital Territory and known, at the date of commencement of this
section, as the Commonwealth Observatory;



  ''the University'' means The Australian National University.

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 5. 
Arrangement for transfer of Observatory. 
SECT

  5. (1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into an
arrangement with the University for and in relation to the transfer to the
University of the administration of the Observatory.

  (2) An arrangement under this section may provide for-



  (a)  the grant to the University, at a nominal rent, of a lease in
perpetuity of any land owned by the Commonwealth which is required for the
purposes of the Observatory (including residential purposes), together with
such property or rights in or in respect of buildings and other fixtures on
any such land as the Minister thinks fit; and



  (b)  the transfer to the University, without charge, of any equipment or
other property owned by the Commonwealth that has been used or acquired for
the purposes of the Observatory.

  (3) An arrangement under this section may include such undertakings by the
University as the Minister thinks necessary with respect to-



  (a)  the continuation by the University of all or any of the activities
carried on at the Observatory at the date of the arrangement;



  (b)  the employment by the University of all or any of the persons who are,
at the date of the arrangement, employed by the Commonwealth in connexion with
the Observatory; and



  (c)  the use of moneys and investments paid or transferred to the University
under section three of this Act.

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 6. 
Powers of Minister. 
SECT

  6. The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, do all things necessary
for carrying out an arrangement made under the last preceding section.

MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 7. 
Rights of officers. 
SECT

Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.

  7. Where a person employed by the University in pursuance of an arrangement
made under section five of this Act was, immediately before his employment by
the University, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth-



  (a)  he retains his existing and accruing rights;



  (b)  for the purpose of determining those rights, his service as a person
employed by the University shall be taken into account as if it were service
in the Public Service of the Commonwealth; and



  (c)  the Officers' Rights Declaration Act 1928-1953 applies in relation to
him as if the University were a Commonwealth authority within the meaning of
that Act.

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MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY ACT 1956-1973 - NOTE 



                                      NOTE

1.  The Mount Stromlo Observatory Act 1956-1973 comprises the Mount Stromlo
Observatory Act 1956 as amended by the other Act specified in the following
table:

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                                Number                       Date of

    Act                         and year        Date of

                                                Assent       commencement

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    Mount Stromlo

    Observatory Act 1956        No. 79, 1956    7 Nov 1956   S. 3: 1 April
1957 

                                                             (see Gazette
1957, 

                                                             p. 793)

                                                             Remainder: Royal

                                                             Assent

    Statute Law Revision Act

    1973                        No. 216, 1973   19 Dec 1973  31 Dec 1973

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