Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1973
No. 9 of 1973
AN ACT
To amend the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1972 so as to lower to
Eighteen Years the Age Qualification for a Candidate for election as a member
of the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory of Australia, and to make
certain Formal Amendments of that Act.
[Assented to 16 March 1973]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the
Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1. (1) This Act may be
cited as the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1973.
(2) The Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1972 is referred to in this
Act as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act, as amended
by this Act, may be cited as the Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1973.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation.
Qualifications
for election.
3. Section 4k of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “twenty-one
years” and substituting the words “eighteen years”.
Formal
amendments.
4. The Principal Act is
amended as set out in the Schedule.
SCHEDULE Section 4
FORMAL AMENDMENTS
1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by
omitting any cardinal number that is expressed in words and substituting the
corresponding number expressed in figures:—
Sections
3(1) (definition of “Acting Administrator”), 4ca(1),
4sa, 5, 6(1), 8, 17(3), 17a(b) and 21(2).
2. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by
omitting the words “of this Act”, “to this Act” and “of this section” (wherever
occurring):—
Sections
3(1) (definition of “Acting Administrator”), 3b(4),
3d (1), 4 (3), 4ca(1), 4ka(3)(a),
4pa (3), 4pb(3), 4sa, 4x(4), 4zc
and 21(3)(d).
3.