Registration of Interests in Goods (Consequential Amendments) Act 1990 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Registration of Interests in Goods (Consequential Amendments) Act 1990

No. 20 of 1990

An Act to amend certain Acts in consequence of the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1990

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 30:  21 June 1990]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Registration of Interests in Goods (Consequential Amendments) Act 1990.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1990, other than sections 1 and 2, commences.

Amendment—Instruments Act 1933, section 9

3.  Section 9 of the Instruments Act 1933 is amended—

(a)by inserting in subsection (2) “but subject to subsection (3)” after “section,”; and

(b)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(3) Where the interest of a grantee or holder of a bill of sale is registered under the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1986 of the State of New South Wales, the bill of sale is as valid and effective as if it had been registered under this Act.”.

Amendment—Sale of Goods Act 1954, section 26

4. Section 26 of the Sale of Goods Act 1954 is amended by omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a)the provisions of the Mercantile Law Act 1962 or the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1990; or”.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on  29 May 1990.]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1990