Parliamentary Committees Enabling Act 1991 (NSW)

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ENABLING ACT 1991

No. 56

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.      Short title

2. Commencement

3. Power to function for an extended period

SCHEDULE 1—COMMITTEES

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ENABLING ACT 1991

No. 56

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 56, 1991

An Act to enable certain Committees of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly to function during the prorogation of Parliament and during the second session of the fiftieth Parliament. [Assented to 11 December 1991]

Parliamentary Committees Enabling 1991

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the date of assent.

Power to function for an extended period

3. (1) It is hereby declared that the Parliamentary Committees

mentioned in Schedule 1 may:

(a) lawfully sit during the period commencing OR the termination of

the first session of the fiftieth Parliament and ending on the

termination of the second session of that Parliament; and

(b) lawfully do during that period all such things as they might lawfully have done had the first session of that Parliament continued throughout that period.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) is to affect or alter any power of the Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly, and it is hereby declared that the operation of that subsection is subject to any such power and the exercise of that power.

SCHEDULE 1—COMMITTEES

(Sec. 3)

Committees of the Legislative Council

Standing Orders Committee.
Library Committee.
House Committee.

Printing Committee.

Committees of the Legislative Assembly

Standing Orders and Procedure Committee.
Library Committee.
House Committee.
Legislation Committee upon the Defamation Bill.

Legislation Committee upon the National Parks and Wildlife (Aboriginal

Ownership) Amendment Bill (No. 2) and cognate Bill.

Act No. 56

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Parliamentary Committees Enabling 1991

SCHEDULE 1—COMMITTEES— continued

Joint Committees

Joint Select Committee upon the Process and Funding of the Electoral

System.

Joint Select Committee upon the Constitution (Fixed Term Parliaments)

Bills.

Other Legislation Committees

Any Legislation Committee of the Legislative Assembly that is
established in December 1991 if the resolution by which it is established

declares that it is a Legislation Committee to which this Act applies.

[Minister's second reading speech made in-

Legislative Assembly on 3 December 1991 Legislative Council on 4 December 1991]