Representation
Amendment Act 1985
No.
58 of 1985
An
Act to amend the Representation Act 1983
[Assented to 4 June 1985]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited
as the Representation Amendment Act 1985.
(2) The Representation Act 19831is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Transitional
provision—increase in size of the Senate
3. Section 5 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (6) “the day referred to
in sub-section (1)” and substituting “1 December 1984”.
NOTE
1. No. 109, 1983. as amended. For previous
amendments, see No. 45, 1984.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House
of Representatives on 17 April 1985
Senate
on 7 May 1985