Reprints Amendment Act 1994 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

REPRINTS AMENDMENT ACT 1994

No. 15 of 1994

AN ACT to amend the Reprints Act 1984.

(Assented to 22 April 1994.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Reprints Amendment Act 1994.

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Commencement

2.    This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Reprints Act 1984* is referred to as the

principal Act.

L* Act No. 13 of 1984.]

Section 4 amended

4.     Section 4 of the principal Act is amended —

(a) in the definition of "authorized office?' by deleting "give a certificate" and substituting the following —

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sign a statement

(b)	in the definition of "referential expression" —
(i) by inserting after paragraph (k) the following paragraph —

" (ka) "of this definition";

(ii)     by deleting paragraph (p) and substituting the following paragraph —

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(p) "said", "the said", "aforesaid" or

"the aforesaid",

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(iii)     by inserting after "number" the following —

or a letter or both "; and

(iv)    by deleting the fullstop at the end of the definition and substituting a semicolon;

and

(c) by inserting after the definition of "referential

expression" the following definition —

"written law" or "law" includes any

portion of a written law or law.

Section 5 amended

5. (1) Section 5 (2) of the principal Act is amended by

deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following

paragraph —

(b) a statement that such form has been prepared in

the Parliamentary Counsel's Office.

(2) Section 5 (3) of the principal Act is amended —

(a) by deleting "certificate under subsection (2) (b) shall

be given" and substituting the following —

statement under subsection (2) (b) shall be

signed

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(b) by deleting "the Deputy" and substituting the following —

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a Deputy "; and

(c) by deleting "give such a certificate" and substituting the following —

sign such a statement

Section 7 amended

6. (1) Section 7 (1) of the principal Act is repealed and the

following subsection is substituted —

(1) An authorized officer may exercise any of the powers conferred by this section in respect of a written law that is reprinted under this Act.

(2) Section 7 (3) of the principal Act is amended —

(a) by inserting after paragraph (e) the following paragraph —

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(ea) for "per centum", or "percent" or

"per cent", the symbol "%";

(b) by deleting paragraph (g) and substituting the following paragraph —

(g) for a reference to a written law or a

law made by or under the authority of

any legislature outside the State, a

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reference to any other written law or

law so made if the effect of —

(i) the Interpretation Act 1984; or

(ii)      any other written law,

is that the former is to be read, or to be taken to be amended to read, as the latter;

and

(c) by inserting after paragraph (g) the following

paragraphs —

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(ga) for a reference to a provision of a written law that was renumbered under an Act repealed by section 9 (1), a reference to the provision as renumbered;

(gb) for a written law's short title or other mode of citation which has been changed, a reference to the title or mode of citation as changed;

(3) Section 7 (5) (b) of the principal Act is deleted and the

following paragraphs are substituted —

(b) correct any error in —

(i) spelling;

grammar;

(iii) punctuation;

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(iv)     the use of upper or lower case; or

(v)      the typing or printing,

in or of a written law;

(c) correct any error or anomaly in —

(i)      the way in which a written law is referred

to; or

(ii)      the way in which a provision is designated.

(4) After section 7 (5) of the principal Act the following

subsections are inserted —

For the purposes of subsection (5) an

authorized officer may make any amendment not

affecting the meaning of the written law.

(5a)

Despite anything in subsection (2) or (5a), an authorized officer may make a clerk's amendment to an Act even if the amendment affects the operation or meaning of the Act.

(5b)

(5c) In subsection (5b) "clerk's amendment"

means an amendment of a reference in a provision of an Act to another provision of the Act, being an amendment in respect of which the Clerk of the Parliaments has issued a certificate to the Attorney General to the effect that the amendment —

(a) is one that should have been made as a clerical amendment before an Act received the Royal Assent in consequence of other amendments made to the Act during its

passage through Parliament as a Bill; and

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(b) is necessary in order to enable an Act to have the operation and meaning that Parliament intended it to have.