Statutes Compilation Act 1905 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRAT,IA.

ANNO QUINT()

EDWA_RDI SEPTIMI REGIS,

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No. 15 of 1905.

AN ACT to provide for .the Compilation of

Acts of Parliament with their Amendments.

[Assented to 23rd December, 1905.]

and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this presentBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.	This Act may be cited as the Statutes Compilation Act, 1905.	short t	title.
2.

From and after the passing of this Act, whenever both Houses of the Parliament shall, by resolution, direct the compilation,

Compilation of

original and amend-

ing statutes.

with its amendments, of any Act in force in the State, it shall be the

N.Z., 1002, No. 10,

duty of the Attorney General, so soon as may be possible after the termination of the session in which such resolution shall have been passed, to prepare a compilation embodying all the provisions of such Act and the amendments thereof', omitting all those portions of the text of such Act which have been repealed or altered by subse- quent Acts, and inserting in the proper places all words or sections substituted for or added to the text of the original Act by such sub- sequent Acts, with marginal reference notes citing section and Act ; and lie shall add to such compilation an appendix showing the Acts and sections of Acts comprised therein.

1905, No. 15.] Statutes Compilation. [5 Enw. VII.

KZ., 1903, No. 75,

In preparing the compilation, the Attorney General shall make such consequential and other alterations in, additions to, or omissions from the text as, in his opinion, are necessary in order to give effect to implied repeals, to secure uniformity of expression, and generally to allow of the compilation being enacted as an Act of the year of enactment, and shall indorse upon such compilation, or attach thereto, a memorandum directing attention to every such alteration, addition, or omission, and stating, where necessary, the reason thereof.

s. 2.

Compiled statutes 3. Such compilation shall be printed and forwarded to the Clerk

to be printed.	of Parliaments by the Attorney General, with a certificate under his
See N.Z. 1902, No.
10, s. 3.	hand that the same is a true and correct compilation of such Act and the amendments thereof ; and thereupon the Clerk of Parliaments shall forward a copy thereof to the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, who shall respectively lay the same on the table at the commencement of the next succeeding session.

How to be enacted.	4. Such compilation may at any time thereafter be enacted in
N.Z., 1905,

No. 5, a. 2. manner following, that is to say:—

(a.) A list of Acts and parts of Acts comprised in the compila- tion shall be set .out in an Appendix A to the enacting statute, and the full text of the compilation shall be set out as an Appendix B thereto.

(b.) The enacting statute shall set forth that the Acts and parts of Acts set forth in Appendix A are hereby repealed, and that the compiled Act set forth in Appendix B is thereby enacted under the title of " The

Act, (giving

the short title); and it shall not be competent to amend or alter either of the appendices otherwise than for the correction of errors of transcription or printing, or for the incorporation of any amendment which may have been made after the preparation of the compila- tion and before the passing of the enacting statute:

Provided that any alteration, addition, or omission made as provided by section two of this Act may be amended, altered, rejected, or restored.

Regulation as to	5. If, before the passing of an enacting statute, both Houses of
printing.

N.Z. 1902, No. 10, the Parliament shall, by resolution, direct the printing for public use of any such compilation, then, in printing the same, the word " Compiled," and figures denoting the year of compilation, shall be placed at the head of each page thereof next after the designation of the Act, as, for example, " Transfer of Land Act (compiled, 190 )";

5 EDW. VII.] Statutes Compilation. [1905, No. 15.

and a copy of every such compilation shall be bound up with the volume of statutes of the session in which such resolution is passed, next after the statutes of such session.

6. Notwithstanding contained in this Act, in the Repealed Acts may

event of the rights of any parties arising under any Acts repelled be referred to. b

hereunder being in question, the court shall be entitled, notwith- standing the repeal of the said Acts, to refer to the same for the purpose of determining such rights.

By Authority: A. Cu yr Acting Government Printer, Perth.