Parliamentary Committees Enabling Act 1996 (NSW)

New South Wales

Parliamentary Committees Enabling

Act 1996 No 143

Contents

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1	Name of Act	2
2	Commencement	2
3	Power to function for an extended period	2
Schedule 1	Committees	3
New South Wales

Parliamentary Committees Enabling

Act 1996 No 143

Act N o 143, 1996

An Act to enable certain Committees of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly to function during the prorogation of Parliament and during the third session of the fifty-first Parliament. [Assented to 16 December 1996]

Section 1 Parliamentary Committees Enabling Act 1996 No 143

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

1 Name of Act

This Act is the Parliamentary Committees Enabling Act 1996.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent.

3     Power to function for an extended period

(1) It is hereby declared that the Parliamentary Committees

mentioned in Schedule 1 may:

(a)	lawfully sit during the period commencing on the termination of the second session of the fifty-first Parliament and ending on the termination of the third session of that Parliament, and
(b)	lawfully do during that period all such things as they might lawfully have done had the second session of that Parliament continued throughout that period.
(2)	Nothing in subsection (1) affects or alters 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.

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Committees	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Committees

(Section 3)

Committees of the Legislative Council

House Committee
Library Committee
Printing Committee
Select Committee on Hospital Waiting Lists
Standing Committee on Law and Justice
Standing Committee on Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics
Standing Committee on Social Issues
Standing Committee on State Development

Standing Orders Committee

Committees of the Legislative Assembly

House Committee

Library Committee

Public Bodies Review Committee

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Standing Co mittee on Public Works

Standing Orders and Procedure Committee

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Schedule 1 Committees

Joint Committees

Joint Select Committee on Victims Compensation
Joint Standing Committee on Small Business

Joint Standing Committee upon Road Safety

[Minister’s second reading speech made in-

Legislative Assembly on 27 November 1996
Legislative Council on 5 December 1996]